Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON by Fawn M. Brodie. 390 pages. Norton...
...Victorian age can now be seen as an outburst of bourgeois baroque-extravagant in form, larger than life, gaudy, ridiculous, but above all productive and resolutely confident. No man better personified this outburst than Explorer Richard Burton,* the magnifico of satanic mien who prowled through unmapped regions like a lion, visited the forbidden cities of Mecca, Medina and Harrar, and discovered Lake Tanganyika...
Nonetheless, the store's blazer-clad salesmen are glad to see customers like Richard and Liz Burton, who ordered 70 pieces of matched luggage for themselves and a maid not so long ago. Or the woman who came in to browse among 60 different kinds of alligator handbags and picked a black Javanese one for $1,200. Months ago, the management concluded that it was time to lay such baubles before the affluent outside New York. The San Francisco store, scheduled to open in November, is just the first. "We are looking West, but that...
...started off as a name for Beatle George Harrison's hairdo, became a discothèque, and will now exfoliate as a business empire. At least Sybil Burton Christopher, 38, major stockholder and drawing card of Manhattan's bon-ton discothèque Arthur, is making an Arthur franchise available to anyone with $50,000 and a suitably overcrowded location. Sybil expects to have spawned seven to ten little Arthurs within a year, will supply suggestions for layout and decor, publicity and the presence of such celebrities as herself and Friend Roddy McDowall at openings. No "small towns...
...millions of moviegoers now know, when Doris starts crinkling her freckles and batting her luxurious spurious eyelashes, a male star is just around the corner. This time it is Richard Harris, a conversation-bugging double agent whose talent consists of electronic gimmickry and histrionic mimicry (principally of Richard Burton). The deodorant and hairspray espionage is supposed to concern itself with the sweet success of smell. But along the line it develops that Interpol is also involved. Someone has been blending hallucinogens into the cosmetics and shipping them all over the world-an LSDevice that gives the stars a chance...