Word: woolrich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian Boys' Brigade was outraged. The British Scouts Association bristled. Minds were boggled, said London's Daily Telegraph, "in every Anglican home." The cause of the outcry was a speech by Dr. John Robinson, formerly the Anglican Bishop of Woolrich. The age of consent in sexual relations, he said, should be lowered from 16 to 14. The change, the bishop argued, would make teen-agers more rather than less responsible for their actions, and it would facilitate counseling by removing the onus of criminality. Robinson seemed unperturbed by the fuss over his speech. As the author...
...Jules and Jim and The Bride Wore Black are the others-in which Truffaut has dealt in detail with the character of a mysterious woman who enchants, dominates and finally controls men. Like Bride, Truffaut's The Mississippi Mermaid is based on a thriller by the American Cornell Woolrich, and like its predecessor, it deals with a predatory female and a weak male, whom she eventually destroys. Julie (to emphasize the similarity, the name is repeated from The Bride Wore Black) is an elegant mail-order bride with a Saint Laurent wardrobe who has come to the French island...