Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked up a quickie divorce from husband George, three days later married her longtime friend, ex-Disk Jockey Thomas Martin, 33. Said the unblushing authoress of the unblushing Peyton Place: Martin "was the only man in my world who made me feel intensely female. A stallion type...
Immediately after finals--this year on Thursday, January 30, the Bicker committees of the clubs start to make their calls. These calls continue for ten days. Classes resume not long after Bicker has started, but they are largely ignored, sophomores finding it "hard to read anything more advanced than Peyton Place...
...movie, most of them made good in the end. The murderess (a nice girl really) is acquitted, the illegitimate girl is reconciled with her mother, and the nude-swimming couple are really in love and get married. Essentially, the movie is about normal love and family relationships. But Peyton Place is so pretty, its homes are so full of healthy, handsome, well-dressed, good-hearted youngsters, its air so thick with platitudes, its ending so obviously destined to be happy, that it is hard to believe that all the goings-on really matter...
...citizens of Peyton Place are performed with a variety of accents and speech defects. Diane Varsi seems uncertain as the illegitimate girl, a sensitive-type child who reads books and listens to classical music. Hope Lange is adequate as her friend the murderess, and Terry Moore is well-cast in a low-cut dress. Lana Turner reverses her field to play a woman afraid of love, and does so in a professional manner...
...film has a few effective moments, but its chief charm is its scenery. When that palls, there are stretches during which Peyton Place seems like a thoroughly dull little town...