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...flashbacks, Simon plans an elaborate scheme to burgle the Riviera branch of Van Cleef & Arpels; Frangoise, an antique dealer, thinks him a businessman but suspects otherwise. Her suspicions, and her attraction to Simon's unpretentiousness, prove seductive. When he is caught in the back room of Van Cleef s, Frangoise pledges to wait for him. It is a familiar enough situation, but it is given novelty by Frangoise's ambition "to live like a man"−to enjoy the freedoms generally granted only to the male sex. What gives La Bonne Annee much of its real grace...
...Folks here," remembers Rita Joyce, "could never understand why Breon studied English and philosophy. They figured he should be using his brainpower for engineering or physics." Breon, like much of the class of '60, moved away from Salina and now teaches at the University of Indiana. Sandy Van Cleef studied ballet, married a mortician and settled in Magnolia, Ark. Keith Cushman became an assistant professor of English and humanities at the University of Chicago; he is planning a book about D.H. Lawrence...
...When Joe's aim begins to deteriorate, so does the partnership, but the two stick together long enough to set out in pursuit of $200,000 worth of stolen gold hidden in a desert cemetery. Also after the money is a thin-lipped sadist named Setenza (Lee Van Cleef...
...Farah Diba, 28, invited five of the world's premier jewelers to design a headpiece for this month's solemnification. Some 50 original designs were winnowed to three, of which Farah Diba selected one created by Pierre Arpels, 47, managing director of the Paris branch of Van Cleef & Arpels. Feeling like a man loose "amongst the treasures of The Thousand and One Nights," Arpels chose 1,469 diamonds, 36 rubies, 36 emeralds and 105 pearls from the royal jewels in Iran's Central Bank, spent six months fashioning them into a crown that is literally priceless-though...
...rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape. For the villain's role, he hired veteran horse-opera heavy Lee Van Cleef, and the shooting commenced...