Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter works, the glitter is incessant. Emily Codway, a widow of a certain age -- nearly 60 actually, although she will only admit to 49 -- carries on a sunset flirtation with a fortyish Italian prince, Carlo Pontevecchio. Her sister-in-law Irma Shrewsbury, also a moneyed widow, is romanced by Charlie Hopeland, a conniving young lawyer. Emily has had cosmetic surgery, but her wardrobe and behavior remain staunchly conservative. Irma, who appears "mean, as if she unconsciously wanted revenge for what she had missed," abruptly turns...
...with no woman and damn few men; he who rides a tiger must never get off; and, as the title indicates, he who sees the last blossom on the plum tree must pick it. Shakespeare was more succinct: ripeness is all, and so it proves with Emily. After meeting Carlo's ancient father, she is momentarily ( transformed into a radiant ideal: "beautiful, charming, intelligent, loving, and the perfect future Principessa Pontevecchio." Irma is another matter: abandoned by Charlie, she becomes one more foolish dowager in the tow of her parasitic heir. But these are merely the bones of the book...
...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
...ideas--for example, that the "main use of gold reserves is to be used." The artist manque appeared. Keynes began to regard money the way a painter looks at his palette. Understanding that currency confronts human beings with two great alternatives--hoarding or gambling--the sometime player at Monte Carlo defined money as "that which one accepts only to get rid of it." He raised monetary theory to poetry when he described money as "a subtle device for linking the present to the future...
...balmy spring morning two weeks ago, FBI Agents Benjamin Grogan, 53, and Gerald Dove, 30, spotted one of the stolen cars on a quiet Miami street. They called for reinforcements. As three FBI cars closed in on the black Monte Carlo, two men jumped out of the car and started firing. After the gun battle, FBI Director William Webster said of the suspects: "They were two particularly violent individuals who did not shoot out of excitement or fear...