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...ruling has stirred up plenty of passion in London's tabloids. Wrote Marje Proops of the Daily Mirror: "Since each individual is unique I don't see how any judge can put a time span on love." Added Alix Palmer of the Daily Star: "It is a question which preys on the minds of a great many people, both male and female, married and single. It is very far from being just a giggle, although that is often the best attitude to take if the mathematics don't go your way." Daily Star readers, invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Weekly Ration | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Jean-Claude is obviously a big fellow now. Over the protests of his mother Simone, he is about to marry the woman he loves, delicious Divorcee Michèle Bennett, 27. Mother objected principally because her future daughter-in-law's former father-in-law Alix Pasquet led an attempted coup in 1959 that nearly toppled Papa Doc. Then too there was the question of titles. After the nuptials Simone will become "First Lady of the Republic for Life." Michèle will be "Wife of the President for Life." In time Baby Doc may become a Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 19, 1980 | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...finds the shockingly explicit love poems by Swinburne that young Richard Miller has smuggled to his daughter. Heart-broken, Richard goes out for a night on the town with a friend of a friend whom he discovers to be a common prostitute. Daniel Sherman, the director, miscast Lydia Alix Fillingham as the whore. She perches on Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers Fillingham. "I'll blow...

Author: By Katherine Ashton, | Title: Idyllic Innocence | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

MARRIED. Maria Isabella Niarchos, 20, daughter of the Greek shipping Croesus Stavros Niarchos and a staffer at the French edition of Vogue; and Alix Chevassus, 36, heir to a French chemical fortune; both for the first tune; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Still another reliable comedienne is Alix Elias, a tubby hooker who adopts the handle "Hot Coffee," since she serves steaming cups of the brew to her clients as a special bonus. Elias's humor stems from her lack of timing; at one point, she interrupts a heated confrontation between the bigamist trucker and his wives to announce her purchase of Vienna Roast beans...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: Demon Radio | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

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