Word: stair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Jewish songwriter named Irving Berlin and made a go of it, knows that those who marry out of their faith are not always so lucky. In Lace Curtain, her second novel, Veronica goes through a young girl's social hell before she finally marries Protestant Jamie Stair. Then she discovers that not even love and children are sufficient armor against relatives and religious differences. At the end, Veronica waits for her husband to return from the war, prays that somehow they can make their marriage last...
...walking up the stair...
...signs remain of the old days of Castle Corners. The grandfather clock in the main hall still reminds one that the President's office next door was once a drawing room. The white-painted rooms are broad and still luxurious, and the landings of the stair case command a fine view of the Yard that used to be a henyard. But Fay House is a house with a present as well as a past. The sign on the third floor has a commanding message for today's Radcliffe girl. In soliciting funds for the College's 70th anniversary, it says...
...storm has bombarded the area with a weight of 45 pounds per square foot, according to an estimate of the Blue Hills Observatory of Harvard, splitting the roof of Hollis Hall yesterday, and sending ice water cascading down the four story stair well...
Probably some of the best camera work of the past year is displayed in Sleep My Love, ranging from a harrowing shot of a body hurtling down a stair well to a uniformly brilliant group of backgrounds. Even the scene changes are executed with finesse. Attention to such camera detail is what brings Sleep My Love out of the mediocre class. Augmenting the lens work are a half dozen or more non-essential but suspense building scenes, some of them cinematic gems in themselves. A Chinese wedding an airplane ride, and a chance meeting at Logan International Airport all bring...