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...deputy leader of the Labor Party, Minister for Economic Affairs and Foreign Secretary in the 1960s, but whose silver-tongued persuasiveness as a parliamentarian and popularity with ordinary people were tarnished by drink and an intolerance of social and diplomatic niceties; after surgery for severe internal bleeding; in Truro, England. A contender for the party leadership in 1963, he lost to Harold Wilson, and was named a life peer in 1970 (down-to-earthily choosing Lord George-Brown as his title...
August is holiday time. France heads for the beach, Congress for home, and psychiatry for the asylum of Truro on Cape Cod. What makes for a holiday? Not time off from work. That happens on weekends, and no one calls that a holiday. Nor merely leaving home. That happens on business trips. Ask Willy Loman. On holiday one escapes more than work or home. One leaves oneself behind. The idea of holiday is a change of person, the remaking of oneself in one's own image. The baseball camp for adults, for example, where the bulky stockbroker, facing...
...plot of Flamingo Road, as with most nighttime soaps, is simplicity itself. Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines), a good girl from the bad side of nowhere, comes to Truro, a small Florida town. There she attracts the attentions of both Sam Curtis (John Beck), a tomcatting entrepreneur, and Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo...
...paintings or their grip on the viewer. In part, these come from his sense of place and his unsparing, discreet eye for the truth of a scene. Anyone who has spent time on the sea knows that nothing, in terms of observation, is missing from his images of Truro on Cape Cod, like The Martha McKean of Wellfleet, 1944. From the humping blue of the water to the mild sun on the belly of the gaff-rigged sail, it is all there, immemorial, as permanent as the way the gulls face into the light...
...good De Chirico. The body is enfolded by its own distances from the world, while planted solidly in a real bedroom. By the same token, the realism of the scene is also an appeal-though a subliminal one-to art history: Jo facing the August light of Truro recalls any number of quattrocento Annunciations...