Word: rachele
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human brain is like the ocean in more ways than one. Both have a titanic capacity for good and evil; both have surface waves and unplumbed deeps. What Rachel Carson wrote of the ocean (in The Sea Around Us) is as true of the brain: "The largest and most awe-inspiring waves ... are invisible; they move on their mysterious courses far down in the hidden depths . . . rolling ponderously and unceasingly." This week there was a flurry of medical news made by researchers probing the dark unfathom'd caves of mind...
...Cousin Rachel lost a good deal of weight in Hollywood. Though the Daphne du Maurier novel was hardly serious reading, its climax did probe the ethics of a murderer and allow his crime to go unpunished. When his clemency disturbed the Johnson Otlice, producers of the film version merely omitted the murder from their script. This compromise left My Cousin Rachel moral, meager, and pointless...
...traces the double of Richard Button, as Rachel's relative, while he wenders whether her husband died of a tumor Rachel's questionable herb brew, is Olivia de Harviland, as the gracious Rachel, gauntly or gniless? Sine the anther won't reveal the answer and the actress seems as puzzled as the audience, the picture's ending is annoying rather than mysterious...
...first Saudek planned to do a series of 30-minute shows dramatizing books, e.g., Rachel Carson's The Sea Around...
...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox) is a 19th century whodunit that poses a perplexing riddle: Is the fetching, half-English, half-Italian widow Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf...