Word: carats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into Ciceronian syntax with words like "risible," "emolument," and "mentation." Then he turns around, describing the group's preference to stay apart when not working. "After the performance, it's Splitsville, Daddy...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. One of the 18th century's best puzzles-the still not fully explained theft of a 2,800-carat diamond necklace made for Marie Antoinette...
...this is a result of what happened when the roof caved in on the U.S. building empire of Hal Braxton Hayes. He was the superbuilder who once put up a house in 34 minutes, a bachelor who made millions, the fiance who gave Zsa Zsa Gabor a 45-carat diamond (which she uncharacteristically returned when their two-month engagement ended), the flamboyant party giver who once was the premier playboy of the Western whirl...
...Queen's Necklace, by Frances Mossiker. In a clever crosscutting of 18th century memoirs and trial briefs, most of them entertainingly libelous, the author tells about the famed and still-unsolved theft of Marie Antoinette's 2,800-carat necklace...