Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most striking performances are its "recitations" of poetry. Through such simple gestures as twisting her fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke all the romantic passion contained in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee? In a short Chinese poem, Bernard Bragg, who studied under Marcel Marceau, creates visual haiku with the line "a wave carries the moon away and the tidal water comes with its freight of stars," by forming a crescent with his upraised hand, then slowly lowering it over an undulating outstretched palm. The signing of Joe Velez...
...book publisher is lucky to get one bestseller out of every 100 titles he prints. But Bernard Geis isn't just any He manufactures bestsellers, frequently by latching on to sexy manuscripts and spending huge amounts of money on ballyhoo. Thus Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, a vulgar chronicle of three female predators on the make in Hollywood, sold more than 350,000 hard-cover copies and 6,000,000 more in paperback. Helen Gurley Brown's guide for swingers, Sex and the Single Girl sold about 2,500,000 copies In each case Gais...
...past two years, U.S. parish priests admit, attendance at the confession box-once a Saturday ritual for legions of devout Catholics-has fallen noticeably. "I would say that confessions are at least a third less than they used to be," says Monsignor James A. Davin of St. Bernard Church in Mount Lebanon, Pa. At the same time, many renewal-minded Catholics are approaching the confessional in a more meaningful way-not as a mechanical means of cleansing their souls of sin but as a life-giving encounter with a forgiving...
...made certain that he could lose no more than the $1,750 no matter how much the stock went up. Though most options are sold to speculators, market tacticians also use them in complex hedging maneuvers to protect paper profits, reap tax benefits, or limit the chance of losses. Bernard Baruch used them to grab control of whole companies-without disturbing the market...
...since Voltaire came to town in 1758 to escape persecution in Geneva has the French border village of Ferney-subsequently renamed Ferney-Voltaire-seen so much excitement. The current fuss is being caused by another refugee from Geneva, controversial Bernard Cornfeld, 40, an American expatriate who has built his eleven-year-old Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. When Bernie Cornfeld decided to move his Swiss-based I.O.S. across the border eight months ago, wags mindful of the 18th century precedent started referring to the town as "Bernie-Voltaire...