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...notions about companionship and a mate chosen for love. Nearly 60% of marriages are still omiai, arrangements made mostly through family and friends but also through counseling and computer centers, and company introduction services. A bride no longer enters her husband's household as a kind of servant to her mother-in-law, nor will she shuffle respectfully three steps behind her husband...
...case that had everything: European aristocracy and American money, a Newport palace and a fiercely loyal servant, a philandering stepfather and vengeful children, a blond heiress wife and a brunette TV-star mistress...
Black cats skulk underfoot; the faces on wall icons frown with disapproval at any liberal impulse; the chief servant, Justina (a delicious turn by Harriet Andersson), has the butch haircut and sadistic ca prices of a prison-camp guard. In this house of silent horror the children can take refuge only in dreams of escape - to the arms of an old family friend, the Jew Isak Jacobi (Erland Josephson), whose house has some old, dark secrets that, in the mind of a child, can seem as exciting as black magic...
...heritage the "right stuff' of which Prussian officers were made. There had been 18 generals in his family. At 15 he joined the King's Guards Regiment. Seven years later, he resigned his commission, apparently intending to take up an equally conventional career as a model civil servant. The youth devised a program of Knowledge, Fervor and Moral Beauty. He became engaged to a pretty 18-year-old whom he congratulated on her good fortune. "Am I not noble, Wilhelmine?" he asked, with no hint of self-mockery...
...couple drove to a country inn outside Potsdam. After spending the night writing letters to friends and straightening out their wills, they strolled in great good humor to the shore of a nearby lake. They drank coffee and skipped stones; then there were two shots. When the servant who had served them coffee returned, she found the bodies...