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`Summer' Sights;Mixing Romantic Cliche's With Scenic Pleasures

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880902
Author:Rita Kempley

"A Summer Story" is scenery: cows in the meadow, maids in the hay, and upper-class Englishmen on holiday. Based on one of John Galsworthy's west country odes, this pastoral pictorial proves the Devon cream of romantic cliche's. It's a real change of pace for director Piers Haggard, who is best known for the blackly comic TV series "Pennies From Heaven."

A middle-aged man looks over a wooden fence, thinking back to 1901, when England was still an empire and he a fair-haired youth walking on the heathery moors. The flashback reveals a country girl, fresh as hens' eggs and ripe as cherries, ...

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