Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only pleasant thing to surface from Britain's drought: in a Welsh valley that had been turned into a reservoir years ago, the stone cottage where Percy Bysshe Shelley romped with his young bride Harriet Westbrook and wrote his first great poetry was exposed to view again as the waters dropped...
Polanski stars as his own protagonist, Trelkovsky, a slight, shy fellow with a personality like a sweaty palm. Looking around Paris for an apartment, he wanders into a building that must have been built in a state of decay. The concierge (Shelley Winters) shows him a flat whose previous occupant, a young woman, attempted suicide by jumping out of a window into the courtyard below. Trelkovsky gets his only glimpse of the girl during a visit to the hospital, where he finds her on a ward bed, wrapped in gauze like a mummy on welfare. She stares...
...scenario might go like this: a hostage who looks amazingly like Shelley Winters searches the sky above Entebbe Airport. "Only a miracle can save us," she says, "and miracles only happen in the Bible." Cut to a tough, determined James Caan briefing his men for the rescue. "Our mission," he intones, "is impossible. But we dare not fail...
Music for Voice and Piano performed by Shelley Sampson and Timothy McFarland. Works of Caldara, Debussy, Schumann, Chopin and Ravel. Cabot Hall, South House...
...these excesses are not the whole volume. Whenever Moers stops schematizing long enough to let her consider able critical acumen focus on specific works, she produces fresh, provocative insights into the workings of particular female imaginations. She suggests that Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley at 18, is a grotesque birth myth subliminally inspired by the traumas its author must have suffered as an unwed teen-age mother. Moers also persuasively argues that the gothic novel has its origins in Radcliffe's desire to find a respectably feminine substitute for the male picaresque tradition. The mysterious creaking castles kept...