Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author endows his most gro tesque characters with a certain beau ty. His kinkiest people - an albino Negro pyromaniac, a senile, one-eyed dishwasher - are the imaginings of a major talent...
...Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel was good ton and Letty Lade...
...soon after Gorst went to the London Observer with a tale about an "ordeal" she had suffered there at the hands of the Redgraves and their comrades. As she told it, she arrived late for the beginning of her two-week course at the Red House because an old beau had whisked her off to Maidenhead for lunch. This infraction of party discipline outraged the Redgraves, especially Brother Corin, who was then Irene Gorst's boy friend...
...enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple are acting coy about another wedding. At the moment, said a friend, marriage "is a very private matter for Mr. Burton and Miss Taylor...
...parents trying to be brave, a fiancé who has pledged true love wilting away from the full force of the tragedy, other patients being both cynical and supportive as Jill masters her wheelchair. Her struggle is abetted by another skier, a cordial eccentric called "Mad Dog" Dick Buek (Beau Bridges) who wants to marry her. She greets his initial proposal with one of those speeches about pity that seem to be required by films like this the way a western needs a Shootout. In the end, she changes her mind-but when he flies to join her, Buek dies...