Word: fernanda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Full of bizarre images and powerful, if tortured emotions, Fernanda Eberstadt's Low Tide is well worth the read. It is the tale of Jezebel, a 19-year-old Manhattanite, and the two sons of her father's oldest friend. The latter pair are located in England where they squander their fabulous wealth in unimaginable ways...
...actors adorn their characters with a modest simplicity; they never try to make them into more than they just are--poor workers beset by circumstances largely out of their control. Gianfrancesco Guarneri as Otavio and Fernanda Montenegro as his wife Romano are magnificent relying frequently on silent movement and glances to display inner turmoil about their son and about their predicament with the strike. One particularly touching moment occurs as the two sit at the kitchen table, silently counting the red beans that will become their dinner. The movements of their languid hands, which grasp each other passionately, show more...
...breaks windows or swings from the chandeliers. There are no Lawrence of Arabia types to match the well-oiled revelers who made headlines among the sand dunes of Long Island after Fernanda Wetherill's legendary bash in 1963. Absent too is the spectacle of several years ago, when one Dallas daddy hired a three-ring circus, complete with elephants, for his daughter's party. "They're all playing it pretty conservative this year," explains Marge Waters, a close observer of the Dallas social scene...
...with their long skirts and their neat, small waists strapped in leather belts. There were curtsies all along the passage as Mother Radcliffe passed. Most were no more than quick, springy bobs, but some were deep and slow and wonderful to watch." These are among the first observations of Fernanda Grey, who at nine embarks on the frightening experience of going to boarding school at Lippington in the last decade before World War I. And an exotic place it is, tending to the daughters of "old, great Catholic families, the frontierless aristocracy of Europe." Nanda is a bright, pretty little...