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...face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster. Her disaster is Bernard-superbly played by Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns are family pride and the valuable pine trees on his estate at Argelouse. Living with him, Thérèse sees no way out until the day he falls ill from an accidental overdose of a medicine containing arsenic. She begins to get ideas...
...rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...
...Doreen, a silly little stenographer. Bob's dreamy, "sensitive" chatter only confuses Doreen, and naturally she prefers Ted. Finally, she leaves. That's all: boy meets girl, boy loses girl. Everything except boy gets girl, which, presumably is the message of the play: Naive romantics never get what they pine for. Shaffer's plot is senile and his satire is unsubtle and too familiar for an American audience...
...this, then, is Governor George Wallace's Alabama-and he is a true product of his state, with all its conflicts and contrasts, its red moons, pine forests and roiling yellow rivers...
...sold the house in 1818 to the Rev. Charles Lowell of the Class of 1800, minister of the West Congregational Church in Boston. We are told Lowell was "enchanted by the great grove of elms around the house" and hence named the residence "Elmwood." Nonetheless, he proceeded to plant pine trees on the grounds...