Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sartre has further chosen to emphasize the revengeful desires of Abigail Williams, a seventeen-year-old vixen who, after being seduced by Proctor, plots to have his wife hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically Gallic seduction scenes that are only implied in the play. The blatant lust of Abigail, brilliantly and demonically played by Mylene Demongeot, completely erases the more insidious evil of the original character...
...months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town. A U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill) wants him to help form joint U.S.-Mexican battalions to go after the Apaches, the Texas Rangers want to give him a job, and the major's estranged wife (Julie London) just wants him. Mitchum begs her not to seduce him and hurt his opportunity for a new life. Before she has a chance, Mitchum kills another villain and nervously flees to Mexico for the second time...
...rest of the plot is as snarled as a ball of tumbleweed. The major and his wife turn up in Mexico on a junket intended to promote the building of international roadbeds, and there, at a fiesta, stands Mitchum. Woofs the hero to the lady, amid the confusion of wild music and whirling skirts: "Let's get out of here." Her response...
...Aalto maintains three bases of operation. One is an office in downtown Helsinki, another his studio on the outskirts, which he calls "the fortification of quiet"; still another is his island hideaway, where he can plunge into the lake on a moment's notice with his pretty new wife Elissa. She is an architect herself (as was his first wife, Aino, who died in 1949), works on his staff...
...Cole's salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...