Word: aristocratic
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...young Pakistani aristocrat arrived in Harvard Yard...
...young Pakistani aristocrat arrived in Harvard Yard...
...execution of Big Daddy is flawless—he is every inch the crude-mouthed monarch of his family—but he has not quite acquired the Southern accent. Especially when he lectures from an arm chair, Big Daddy comes off more as The Godfather than a Mississippi aristocrat...
...Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou) is a famous reprobate who's about to marry the innocent aristocrat Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida) but, reputedly, hasn't shaken off the allure of his Spanish mistress Vellini (Asia Argento). The film is mostly a flashback relating their affair. Like many movies once upon a time, and few today, An Old Mistress approaches romantic passion with a voluptuous seriousness. The Cannes audience giggled at some of the more intense scenes - as when Ryno has a bullet removed from his chest and Vellini avidly licks the wound. To each his own eroticism...
...first sight, Brown and Sarkozy hardly seem like soul mates. Sarkozy, who won an easy victory in the French presidential run-off election on May 6, is the son of a Hungarian émigré aristocrat. A mediocre student who still refers painfully to the "humiliations" of his childhood, Sarkozy embraced Gaullist conservatism as a young man, when most of his French contemporaries were reveling in the make-love-not-war spirit of the late 1960s. He triumphed in the French vote by consistently painting himself as the candidate able to lift the nation out of its economic torpor. "Together...