Word: brides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Babay Doc Takes a Bride...
...salute and the exploding of $100,000 worth of fireworks greeted Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 28, and his bride Michèle Bennett, 27. The couple emerged under crossed sabers from the freshly refurbished cathedral of Port-au-Prince after a $3 million wedding, the country's most lavish social event in two decades. Said the bride, with a smile: "We'll make lots of children and live happily ever after...
...Thomas, 42, stage, screen and television actress (That Girl), and crusader for the feminist cause; and Phil Donahue, 44, popular TV talk-show host and recent bestselling autobiographer (Donahue, My Own Story): she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Danny Thomas...
...life has been an ordeal of "searching for something and never stopping, never being satisfied," as he put it in Straight Life, the unsparing, tape-recorded autobiography (Schirmer; 1979) that he assembled with his third wife, Laurie. His parents, a hard-bitten merchant seaman and a teen-age bride, began breaking up shortly after Art's birth in suburban Los Angeles (which his mother tried to prevent by aborting herself). Art's lonely upbringing was entrusted to an unloving grandmother. He found an outlet in the clarinet at nine and switched to the saxophone at twelve. He proved...
Amelie Syberberg follows this cue, in the last scenes of the film, stripping down to a white, flowing dress, hurrying past a projection of Frankenstein's bride. She sits on the moon, the stars above--out of human reach--she sits with her hands over her ears...