Word: 20th
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Where the movie should have focused on the interplay of the 20th-century Swann and the 19th-century villagers, it remains fascinated by old-fashioned gunplay. Director William Dear seems to have decided that audiences would never be happy without a shoot-'em-up subplot. All the audience really wants, however, is to see Swann use a little modern-day unfortunately, the cowboy subplot wins out over any such...
Marilyn Monroe occupies an unquiet grave. The 20th anniversary of her death has set off a worldwide orgy of necrolatry. While she continues to inspire plays, books and lyrics, the beautiful blond whom Norman Mailer called "the sweet angel of sex" is being all but drowned in a flood of tacky tribute. Boutiques and stores from San Francisco to Rome have found an apparently inexhaustible market for such mementos as life-size cardboard stand-ups, 3-D posters, calendars, bed sheets, shopping bags, masks, hot-water bottles ("Take me to bed. I will keep you warm"), piggy banks, pepper shakers...
...been mishandled since her death. The major beneficiaries of her will-notably the late Lee Strasberg, the Method acting coach, who was a father figure to the actress, and a clinic selected by Monroe's psychiatrist, Marianne Kris-had received paltry sums. Then, just in time for the 20th anniversary of her death last August, a Los Angeles lawyer-agent, Roger Richman, won the right to represent the Monroe estate as the sole licensing agent for Monroebilia. Richman is currently tracking down marketers of bric-a-brac and is now reportedly charging those new to the Monroe business...
Reserve's investments now total some $3 billion, making the fund the 20th largest of its type in the U.S. And while Brown, 56, and Bent, 45, will not say how much money their idea has brought them, the sum would obviously buy a lot of hot dogs. The two are sole general partners of the company that manages the fund's assets, and the company was paid $13.1 million during fiscal 1982 for running the money. Brown and Bent say that they have plowed much of the income back into the business over the years, investing some...
...Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes on Capitol Hill. Most important, of the six congressional office palaces built in the 20th century, this is the first to make 20th century functional sense...