Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...autobiographical, not literally self-centered. The Eugene Gant who is Thomas Wolfe, imprisoned though he may feel, impassioned though he may grow, is less the protagonist, more just part of a memorable tribe. There is the well-meaning, property-loving, family-exploiting, sympathy-maneuvering mother. There is the lusty ruin of a father, with a heroic gift for drink and denunciation, and a sense of values for all his violences. There is Eugene's snappish, put-upon sister; there is his protective brother Ben, who, as in the novel, is more notable dying than when alive. The Gants...
Gervaise. Emil Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into the touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell ( TIME...
...first live TV drama. The play that caught Margaret's fancy: Iris, the story of an eligible spinster, aged 31, who refused to rush things with her undependable steady (Ray Montgomery). "Like a cake in the oven," she tells him, "you open the door too soon, you ruin it." In the end, though, Iris bravely chucked the cad when she realized he was not returning her love, only her kisses, and, with what the script called "a fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh courageously: "I am born again." Though Iris was the kind of frothy pink lady...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into the touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...