Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streamlining of the book emphasizes the basically melodramatic quality, when stripped down to the essentials, of James's plot. In turn-of-the-century London, a well-bred but impoverished young woman, Kate Croy (played by the matchless Helena Bonham-Carter), is confronted with conflicting demands of a secret engagement to a penniless journalist (Linus Roache) and a wealthy aunt who wants her to marry well. Into the midst of this crisis sails Milly Theale (Alison Elliott), an ingenuous American visitor who--in true Jamesian form--happens to be encumbered with an enormous fortune. Milly becomes friends with Kate...
...which Softley deliberately deeroticizes to show the gulf that opens between Kate and Merton. Both the sexualized metaphor of the masked carnival and the loveless sex may strike one as a bit heavy-handed, but both sequences are effective thanks to the remarkable capacity of the two actors to turn the heat on and off at will...
...spent weeks committing rushing totals, passing efficiency statistics and defensive formations to memory, and now we can turn to the true joy of crunchtime: playoff contingencies...
...then used the issue of ecology to turn his attention on education and the need to support multicultural education...
...there is only impatience. "It is very disappointing that another government agency is reporting they do not know what caused this," company spokesman Mark Abels told the Associated Press. "We are looking forward to the day that some agency does know what caused it." Your turn, NTSB...