Word: sheelagh
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...nattily dressed gentleman named Marion--offers nothing more threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those who try to prevent the match. Thomas tries to fashion a Victorian Heathcliff--a wrathful and passionate lover--from the bare bones of a ghostly glare and tragic family secret. But rather...
That brought a defense for Dick & friends from one Sheelagh Hardie: "Surely Dick, having emerged unscathed from fire and water, from the perilous lift-shaft and the homicidal ape, need fear little from this new assault. Surely, too, our children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated...
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