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...Nile and wound up reporting the melee at Amman Airport as American evacuees boarded rescue planes. He was aided by Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell, also a veteran Middle East hand. In New York, the cover story was written by Spencer Davidson, edited by Ronald Kriss, and researched by Ursula Nadasdy...
Essentially, Women in love, the novel, is a partially dramatized dialectic on the meaning of sex, love, and marriage, Lawrence's characters-Gerald, a machine-driven industrialist (played by Oliver Reed in the movie); Gudrun (Glenda Jackson), a willful, aspiring artist; Ursula (Jennie Linden), her simpler, more sensual, sister; and, of course, Birken-tramp about their country homes in the English countryside circa 1910 while strenuously debating the finer points of their relationships. Eventually they pair off and work out their respective destinies. For the movie version, Kramer has saved great chunks of their conversation in an almost suicidal attempt...
...inevitable pulsing soundtrack and tumultuous camerawork mar the development of the scene.) A shot of a drowned girl, entwined in the arms of her dead lover, as they are washed up onto a muddy shore is equally effective. (Although, it is mistakenly intercut with shots of Birken and Ursula making love. Properly, the omen is directed at Gerald of whose fears it is much more illustrative.) One of the film's concluding images comes closest to suggesting the metaphoric associations flowing beneath Lawrence's narrative. Gerald, after breaking from Gudrun in a scene that parallels Birken's rupture with Hermione...
...also prove something of a stumbling block for movie audiences just learning to accept male homosexuality as a valid means of exploring love and sex. Birken's desire to achieve a mystic yet sensual union with another man must be seen in reaction to his fears of Hermione and Ursula. Birken hates women for their sex at the same time as he is drawn to them; he associates the demands of the two women with those of motherhood and death, forces that limit and frustrate his lofty aspirations for freedom. But since the movie caricatures Hermione to the point...
Neither the book nor the film has a conventional plot. The players move from segment to segment, progressing in Ursula and Birkin's case to partial salvation, in Gudrun and Gerald's to personal destruction...