Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Napoleon was sure that the French General Staff had failed him. Sergei Bondarchuk has another idea. Though the English and French exchanged considerable fire and shed small oceans of blood, they had very little to do with the outcome. The beau stratagem was performed by old General Blücher and his vindictive Prussians. They and they alone are responsible for the outcome in Waterloo, or, as its subtitle might read, History Revised for Anglophobes...
...regulars on the magazine referred her to the Ford modeling agency. But "by the end of my junior year," Ali remembers, "I had gained too much weight for modeling. I didn't care." In 1960 she graduated and?just like Jennifer Cavilieri in Love Story?married her Harvard beau. It lasted a year and a half. "We were children," she says. "We didn't have anything to say to each other except pleasantries...
...tourists strolling among the Christmas trees on Washington's Ellipse near the White House seemed to recognize the elusive Tricia Nixon (dubbed "the Howard Hughes of the White House" by the mystified press) and her longtime beau, Edward Finch Cox. At least one who did spy Tricia, though, saw more than blonde hair and dimples: Tricia was wearing a diamond on the ring finger of her left hand. Would she announce her engagement to the son of New York Socialites Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Cox over the holidays? Her mother Pat Nixon would only...
...filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named Don Scardino, who is the most genial and talented young leading man to appear since Beau Bridges...
Movement and Metaphor: Four Centuries of Ballet by Lincoln Kirstein. 290 paqes. Praeger. $17.50. A delightfully idiosyncratic history of classic dance by the co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet. It minutely and wisely analyzes 50 landmark ballets, from Balthasar de Beau-joyeulx to George Balanchine. Kirstein's prose is suave and evocative. The stunning black and white illustrations, many of them never before reproduced, are a far cry from the expectable salon-photography narcissism...