Word: touched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wades deeper into ever shallowing waters. The beach house belongs to a fragile and frigid family: Dad (E.G. Marshall) is preoccupied with his lawyering; Mom (Geraldine Page) is round the bend for causes never fully explained, but presumably having to do with everybody's failure to talk and touch with any real warmth. Their three daughters are a successful poet (Diane Keaton) married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit of an artist...
...drink) and snucker on down to the Hasty Pudding Club, where the company is making its summer home. This effect will not only increase the drama of the drama, it will add a humorous dimension to the production. Which finally brings us out of this digression: the only touch Angel Street needs to become a better thriller is a dab of comic relief...
...story of an ancient crime commited right in Mrs. Manningham's parlor. John Guerrasio brings the play to life with his odd characterization. Mrs. Manningham settles down, Mr. Manningham's motives are revealed, and Rough sprouts about the stage with his Holmesian moustache and pipe, becoming both the saving touch of credibility to the play, but also the final measure of mystery that escalates this belated tale of Victorian constipation into something of an adrenalin surge...
Flea markets thrive on nostalgia. Explains Susan Pressly, a New York City nurse and a frequent visitor to New Jersey's Lambertville Antique Flea Market: "You can go there and touch something from your childhood." When Shirley Temple ruled moviedom in the '30s, small blue drinking glasses bearing her pixie face were packed in countless Wheaties boxes. The glasses now fetch $9 each at MacSonny's flea market in North Reading, Mass. Anything old sells: wedding dresses, shoes, and, for collectors, Coca-Cola signs, beer cans and comic books. Says Bill McCrenice, an antique-store owner...
...going through Jefferson's home many times... is not quite the same as Professor Peterson's. What impressed the visitors ... was the 'Yankee' ingenuity of various tricks and utensils about the place, rather than the place itself. Doors opening by 'magic' if you touch but one of them. Other doors swinging food in, as the mantle quietly slips wine bottles up ... He had a Connecticut Yankee's engineering mind inside a Southern gentleman's frock coat. This superficially clashes with the popular image of him as a vague idealist. But that...