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Marriage Revealed. Linda Darnell, 30, brunette cinemactress (Forever Amber); and Philip Liebmann, 39. wealthy president of Liebmann Breweries. Inc. (Rheingold); both for the second time; in Bernalillo...
...travelers, especially the kind who hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming Haitian crayfish. The weather is good the year around, the scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang...
...offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
...displays costing from $1,000 to $75,000. Store owners credit the company and its president, Cecilia Staples, with some of the best windows yet designed. All are planned to the last ribbon, then built with every material from ermine to gumdrops popcorn and broken beer bottles to simulate amber...
...virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding out for the highest bid. Fielding's Shamela is an honest doxie who blats about her "Vartue" from time to time, but belongs essentially to the long line of fiction's profiteering amorists reaching to Scarlett O'Hara and Amber...