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undercliff

[′ən·dər‚klif]
(geology)
A subordinate cliff or terrace formed by material which has fallen or slid from above.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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If you look at the end credits, I'm only ten down from Meryl Streep, billed as Girl On The Undercliff. My scene only lasted about five minutes but I managed to hang around on the set for seven months.
Tarbox sees all the events, from the meetings on the Undercliff to the sex in Exeter to Sarah's disappearance, as consciously planned by Sarah with the specific goal of giving Charles an "education" in existentialism.
The second time Charles runs into Sarah in the Undercliff, she acknowledges him but "seemed to hesitate, as if she would have turned back if she could" (98).
Surely, too, Fowles has in mind the story of Sleeping Beauty when Charles observes Sarah sleeping--or pricking her finger--in the Undercliff (61, 146).
Detectives say the 53-year-old man was last seen alive early on Wednesday at a well-known gay meeting spot near the Undercliff in Broadstairs, Kent.
Along the undercliff walk at Rottingdean I chalked Chelsea 2, Leeds 1 in massive white letters every 20 yards for half a mile.
Sam and Mary stumble upon Charles and Sara at an abandoned cottage in the undercliff. Sam begins to imagine that he can blackmail Charles into giving him the money to begin his haberdashery shop.
Their clandestine meetings are a soft, more innocent echo of the secret encounters in The French Lieutenant's Woman between Charles and Sarah in the Undercliff, which Charles describes as an "English Garden of Eden" (62).
towards the back of its arena" in the most secluded part of the magic garden of the Undercliff (166).
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