Word: schoolmistress
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...aesthetic splendor proves, perhaps a little predictably, to be little more than a patina. The lips of schoolmistress Miss G (played with tense precision by Eva Green) are put to unspeakable use by their owners, and the shimmering water becomes the site of unhealthy competition amongst her students, as well as an ill-advised night of au naturel swimming. Not all is as lovely as it once seemed...
...garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke a bit of fun at her during her segments on the Today show, she blithely ignores him. If she doesn't take cake decorating seriously, who will? Dominique...
MATILDA (August 2), about a girl's revenge on her cruddy parents and evil schoolmistress, has the potential delectations of a Roald Dahl story and Danny DeVito's knowing comic direction. DeVito also plays Matilda's dad, expectorating lines like, "Why wudja wanna read, when ya got the television set sittin' right in frunnaya?" Or, we might add, when ya got a 'plex-full of icky kids' films...
...Deaver in sentencing. "This defense has been frequently used and has almost never been successful," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's a defense of the last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people off the hook...
...gives acting lessons to a diligent but amateur Argentine theatrical troupe. At 45, 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...