Word: quartetting
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...went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards...
...knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton as the four women in Don's long-ago love life offer hope for a quartet of comic or romantic playlets leading to a satisfying emotional resolution...
There exist more artistic wastes of time as well—www.createbands.com allows you to build an ensemble that would fit in perfectly well in the indy music scene here at Harvard, and the Farmer Shop Quartet (which I’ve conveniently linked at tinyurl.com/2d8m to make up for the fact it has a horribly long address) allows you to make one that would fit in at Cornell. At www.isketch.com, you can pit your drawing talents against those of your roommates (or those of complete strangers, if your roommates are more responsible than you are) in a game...
Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, about a quartet of mutant superheroes, has been three TV series and a movie. Now Tim Story (Barbershop) tries to please both fans and civilians. The tricky thing about a comic-book franchise is that if you make a movie pure enough for the cultists, it may confuse Joe Multiplex. "I remember when the fans found out Spider-Man wasn't going to have web shooters," Story says. "It was like a march on Washington. But the spirit of Spider-Man was captured, and so they relinquished that fight. I'm kind of in the same...
Fronted by Becky Warren (a 2000 Wellesley graduate), the Great Unknowns had been playing together in various other groups (including the above-profiled Invisible Downtown and North House) for years before their current incarnation as a folksy rock quartet...