Word: aristocrat
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Though the Tories may not need Sir Alec now, they owe the former 14th Earl of Home, who gave up his title to become Prime Minister when Harold Macmillan stepped down, a large debt. The gaunt, gracious aristocrat was hardly a public figure when he moved from the foreign secretaryship to No. 10 Downing Street. He inherited a party embarrassed by the Profumo-Keeler scandal and racked by dissension over his own selection. After nearly 13 years in power, the Tories were visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally...
Scrambling fact in a free-for-all of oldtime comedy styles, Magnificent Men invents a Great London-Paris Air Race in the year 1910. The competition, sponsored by British Publishing Tycoon Robert Morley, soon becomes a contest between a rugged U.S. barnstormer (Stuart Whitman) and an airborne English aristocrat (James Fox), each determined to win the day and the tycoon's daughter, Sarah Miles, precisely the sort of flibbertigibbet Josephine who might lose her heart-and through frequent entanglements, her hobble skirt-to a daring young man in a flying machine...
Forward is the course of Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 52, President of Peru and the man who in the past 19 months has captured the imagination of his people as no one before. He is an aristocrat, a member of one of Peru's older and wealthier families. Were it not for the force of circumstance, he would probably still be just a successful Lima architect. His political enemies call him an adventurer, a buccaneer, a demagogue. In his messianic public oratory, he has at times approached the emotional level of a Fidel Castro. But the revolution that...
...palace. Waiting police hurled tear gas. His eyes streaming, Belaúnde delivered an ultimatum: "I will wait half an hour. If by then I have not been inscribed, we will march." Odria grudgingly let him run. In the voting, Belaúnde lost to Manuel Prado, an aristocrat who had made a deal with APRA: legality and an end to repression in return for APRA votes. Even so, Belaúnde was defeated by only 110,000 out of 1,260,000 votes-and kept right on campaigning...
Emily Levine is a magnificent Julie. Before the seduction she incorporates perfectly the two natures of a haughty aristocrat who needs a man. Her words are rightfully those of a lady, but she breathes them with the anxious half-gasps of a woman in heat. Never overacting, she sometimes shivers with desire...