Word: quicksands
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...presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have a man?" Perceiving that this will doubtless blossom into an intimate family affair, he also assures them: "How could I love one of you more than another?" His first objective...
...which was not given to understatement. They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of mid-19th century America. Most of our own buildings stand on the shifting quicksand of insecurity-Victorian architecture was founded on the rock of superb confidence...
Stumbling into quicksand, the hero is on the point of disappearing when he is saved by Maila, Ina's kindly sorceress-grandmother. His former friends ostracize him for wanting to marry Ina--who, loving him, cannot marry because she fears churches. And so on, until our sprite meets a tragic end, dying on the forest floor under a full moon; and only the owls answer her lover's frantic calls...
...selfless, 16-hour-a-day dedication to the health of the natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into the difference between religious vocation and mere doing good. "Not only did you leave the convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also...
...house of the Federal Republic of West Germany is built on quicksand," was the concluding observation of Joachim Gehloff at the International Seminar Forum last Thursday...