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...would make a hard bargain with him: he would garden (which he detests) if she would drink beer (which she detests) with him. So the Welches spent their weekends with rake and hoe, diligently working in the hot sun, with time out for beer in the shade, each suffering alternately...
...drives out of the rolling hills of the Holyoke Range past the white clapboard houses of the upper Connectient Valley into the sleepy little town of Amherst, Massachusetts, one is immediately impressed that here is a New England Village still in the original. Shade trees dot its broad, green common stretching away to the right and the left. Clustered among the trees on a knoll sit a group of New England type brick buildings dominated by a white-spired chapel...
...movie's photography is sensitive, catching in flutter of light and shade the fluttering mood of grace and despair. As the priest, Actor Claude Laydu wears a beautiful mask of spirituality but seems to have no idea how to suggest what is going on beneath the mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like...
...game went on and it got colder and colder. I was sitting in the shade and people around me started to stamp their feet. The field seemed immensely far away and apparently no one paid much attention to what was going on. People talked, shouted, and little boys ran up and won the aisles, and everyone ate. There was a vast dull munching throughout the stadium. In the fourth inning the Red Sox, who were one run behind at this point, staged a rally and with a few hits changed the score completely. The rally drove everyone to the near...
...heart of his characters, at least he manages to get under their skins. But he is at his best when he catches the pathos of his eight-anna heroine and her half-caste lover, human beings who do not belong because the color of their skin is a shade too dark...