Word: ava
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DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...
...even when his clients have money, Koolhaas doesn't spend it on materials. The Villa Dall'Ava, outside Paris, cost $485,000, yet the architect still used orange plastic webbing, familiar from construction sites, for a balustrade on the roof. One room on the ground floor is surrounded on three sides by glass, which can be opened to the outside or enclosed by a curtain--almost like a hospital bed--for more intimacy. The clients asked for a "masterpiece," and they got an adventure. Neighbors, on the other hand, so opposed the plan that the house had to be fought...
...book's second section, Atwood looks outward to mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...
...Fitzpatrick, now reportedly living under the witness protection program in St. Paul after botching a bombing attempt in New York City in 1978. Fitzpatrick and Shabazz were high school pals who remained close over the years, the source told White. At a Chicago news conference, Nation of Islam lawyer Ava Muhammad blamed the feds for targeting Shabazz. "It would be easy for conspirators to entrap this troubled young woman," she said. Shabazz was four years old when she witnessed the gunning down of her father in a Harlem mosque...
Sinatra is best in these climbing-to-the-top scenes, and in its portrayal of Sinatra's career slump in the late '40s, when record sales dipped, his marriage crumbled and he even made a botched suicide attempt. His marital infidelities get ample attention, particularly his stormy affair with Ava Gardner (Marcia Gay Harden). Along the way, he is portrayed as an egotistic hothead with a politically correct tint: when a hotel clerk tries to deny a room to black band member Sy Oliver, Sinatra bullies the fellow into turning over...