Word: violet
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...breaks out in September 1966. "Red" forces attack the "violet" (NATO) alliance, only to be stymied at the Rhine. The reds try an end run through "white" country (Switzerland) to invade "blue" country [France...
Patricia Fay, as Violet, the woman who gets her man early and uses her womanly techniques to obtain wealth, was again outstanding, occasionally making those near her look embarrassingly amateurish. Joan Tolentino, Ann's half shrewd, half silly mother, was irrepressible in the final act, and earned a well-deserved applause when she left the stage...
...Corbett's Octavius, the heart-broken poet scorned by Ann, is quite weak enough to deserve's Ann's cruel "Ricky-ticky-tavy" nick-name, but hardly deep enough to evoke sympathy. Timothy Mayer's Stryker, the auto mechanic and supposedly the New Man, and Mark Bramhall's Hector, Violet's secret husband, are spoiled by their accents. Mayer is sometimes hard to understand and Bramhall sounds more like a simpleton than the Jack Kennedy he apparently was immitating. Both, however, have enough sense of timing to draw their laughs well...
...them White lent the best of his sense of color. White's skies, like Turner's, open on a sudden drenching spectrum, but. unlike Turner, the colors are never more than mute. White's palette, even at its rawest, never offered an indelicate hue: violet was his moodiest color...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...