Bluebeard comes on strong in spring with silvery, almost-white toothed foliage, followed by the clearest blue, starry flowers in late summer. |
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In the 20th century, the Bluebeard story, with its savagely misogynistic overtones, fell into disfavor. |
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In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable. |
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Carradine had a wonderful mellow speaking voice which he uses to good effect in Bluebeard as well as a very expressive face. |
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We have graduated in a single generation from the bogeyman of the Vietnam vet turned sociopath to the bogeyman of the antiwar radical turned Bluebeard. |
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She was permitted, nay encouraged, to make use of all the rooms, so elegantly and commodiously furnished, in Bluebeard Castle, with one exception. |
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Every effort to locate either earlier tellings of these two tales has failed, a real-world Bluebeard who murdered wives in his castle is a post-Perrault creation. |
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Her next book, a horror novel based on the Bluebeard legend, promises to do likewise. |
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Edgar Ulmer's reputation rests largely on a series of no-budget, claustrophobic noirs and thrillers like Strange Illusion, Bluebeard, and of course Detour. |
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Sister Anne, Potter's version of the story of Bluebeard, was written especially for her American readers, but illustrated by Katharine Sturges. |
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She also helped put on a play called The BlueBeard of Unhappiness with female friends. |
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During that same century, Charles Perrault was a prolific writer of famous children's fairy tales including Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard. |
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