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...Christie can appear worn, her face sculpted in suffering, yet on her it looks beautiful. And she is still the consummate actress. In her fastidious steps and erect carriage, in the gentle edge of her schoolmistress voice, she embodies all the poise and repression of the imperial Englishwoman abroad...
...period piece." Actually, it concerns two periods: the year before the Crash and the time after middle age. She is obviously an expert on both. With witty understatement and antic plot, she shows a high social stratum at its apogee. Messages are delivered on silver salvers. A titled Englishwoman seems to have stepped from a Gershwin song, down to the exclamation, " 'S wonderful." Irma's son, rendered useless by the lack of a trust fund, laments, "My parents have never had much use for me," and wheedles a large check from a relative. Emily, with every possible creature comfort, cannot...
...Englishwoman in Two More Under the Indian Sun observes, "Indian men have such marvelous eyes . . . When they look at you, you can't help feeling all young and nice." Foreigners succumb to this seductive appeal at their own peril. In Passion, two British roommates take up with men they find "typically Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine...
...Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance, which opened on Broadway last week, the structure as usual looks ambitious but the execution is sweet and simple. The opening half is a solo song cycle about a young Englishwoman (Bernadette Peters) who comes to the U.S. to pursue romance, glamour and a hard-nosed career as a hat designer. At first she is abused by men who exploit her, or treat her as another expensive toy, or shy away from commitment. Then she treats a man that way, condemns herself for it and vows to recapture her lost innocence...
...resisted the challenge. Shortly after her death in 1976, one estimate put the worldwide sale of her works at 400 million copies. Given such glittering evidence and the clues provided by her fiction, a mystique was bound to develop around the one whodunit: Agatha the enchantress, the proper Englishwoman with a power to murder and create. When she insisted that the truth was far less exotic, armchair sleuths who had been trained by her books recognized a false lead when they...