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...clock museum, she jokingly inquired whether one ceremonial item was a Swiss watch; the director sheepishly admitted it was French. Raisa Gorbachev also demonstrated a beguiling bilingualism. Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English, "It's bea...
...documented the paranoia and the prodigality of the Marcos regime. Some of the paintings hanging from the walls had been appropriated at will by the Marcoses from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Scrapbooks contained photographs of properties in New York City and London, presumably belonging to the royal couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary of $5,700 a year, such a shopping spree amounted...
...BEA A. CAMACHO...
This wistful tale in verse, lyrically illustrated by the writer's husband, tells how Belle, a neglected child of privilege, befriends her housekeeper Bea in lieu of absentee parents. Day in, day out, the pair do gardening, shopping and housework together, punctuated by regular outings to the house's beachfront--"Belle and Bea, by the sea, hand in hand." The tact with which Bea fills a maternal role is touching, the warmth of their bond palpable. One day Belle ventures onto the beach by herself and chases her big red ball into the sea. A crisis ensues that teaches...
...make that six!) seems a lazy way of making rich subject matter easy to digest--and almost guaranteeing a Tony acting nod in the bargain. Then there are the autobiographical shows, which can occasionally be dishy and inspired (Elaine Stritch at Liberty) but just as often superfluous ego trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years, however, has been the puffed-up comedy monologue, from the traditional stand-up of comics like Jackie Mason, Bill Maher and Rob Becker (Defending the Caveman) to the more crafted, character-driven monologues of such...