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Nevertheless, an oddly sympathetic portrait of the royals emerges, one that sees them less as a family than as a confederation of strange ducks and isolated boobs whose presently debased and demystified state may have been ordained when they made their first bargain with the p.r. devil and changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor during World War I. "We recognize them for what they are," Kelley quotes an anonymous viscountess as saying. "They are undereducated and ill-informed Germans, and they need our help...
...script itself is often as wobbly as the short-term ententes formed among the characters. Screenwriter Laura Jones, who so bravely and audaciously recontextualized last winter's Portrait of a Lady, shows a disappointing, almost slavish devotion to Smiley's prose. In fact, the movie's first half-hour plays like a book on tape, with transparent thumbnail characterizations ("I guess you remember that Rose always says what she thinks") and redundant observations ("We all understood that something important had just happened...
...stern gaze of the portrait of Major Higginson, who build the Union in 1901, used just to survey feeding freshmen," wrote Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles in a fax yesterday. "Now, he should cheer up, as he looks down at the central areas of the Barker Center, bustling with Faculty and students talking, working, teaching and being taught...
...statue of the veiled Kronos and the clock sit in the room, as do some of the massive oil paintings that dominated the walls. A new addition is a portrait of Helen Keller that once hung in University Hall...
...conspicuous three paces behind the times. A few years and a thousand talk shows later, she became the Princess Victim, bulimic, suicidal, betrayed by a caddish paramour with a tell-all book, trapped in a loveless marriage. But that image too was fleeting, replaced by a very '90s portrait of a shrewd operator, better at public relations than all the palace spear throwers. By the time she agreed to a divorce, she had embraced the American notion that marriage is more about self-fulfillment than sacrifice or lines of succession. She had built up such reserves of public sympathy...