Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baron Pittinger, the associate director of Athletics, labeled a report in yesterday's Boston Evening Globe that Harrison had been relieved of his duties "pure speculation...
...ancient scores to settle. Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons regularly take their differences to the streets. In the French city of Toulouse not long ago, TIME Correspondent Paul Ress got into a discussion about the brutal crusade led by Simon de Montfort, a northern baron, against the Catharist "heretics" of the Midi during the 13th century. The Toulousains seemed amiable, but Ress was told next day that they "didn't like you, though. They took you for a friend of Simon de Montfort...
...BARON BLOOD-who is referred to by the hero with unconscious levity as "that ghoulish baron on my father's side"-is a long-dead nobleman brought back to life by some frivolous incantations. His visage is ghastly to behold, but he is crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance...
...moved by his plea (I wonder how that went in the original Italian), or when he criticizes his servants for revealing the secret of his sanity: "You jeopardized your own position. After all, no madman, no jobs." The insulting backtalk between the Countess Matilde and her lover, Baron Tito Belcredi, provides an element of domestic comedy that lightens the whole play. (This may be harmful in the long run, since it makes us disbelieve the seriousness of Tito's death in the end. We've been led to believe that he deserves every insult he gets, and death is merely...
Married. Victoria Ormsby Gore, 26, daughter of David Ormsby Gore, fifth Baron Harlech and Britain's former Ambassador to the U.S. (1961-65); and Julian Lloyd, 25, horse trainer, occasional model and photographer; both for the first time and about a month after the birth of their first child, a daughter; in Selattyn, England...