Word: conquest
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...that royalty wears so well. The face wears well too. At 63 it has settled into a comfortable handsomeness. Today Mastroianni is exhausted from too many interviews on this Manhattan visit to promote his film Dark Eyes. But like a Casanova tantalized by the inevitability of one more conquest, he will of course accommodate another visitor. It is his pleasure and his business to walk onto the stage of a magazine page, to tell the familiar stories and improvise new ones. So the graceful hands sculpt air to illustrate a point. The smile invites. Even the famous world-weary shrug...
...films were comic strips with grown-up cynicism, Hitchcock thrillers without the artistic risks. He was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes -- just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures. "My dear girl," Bond tells a new conquest, "there are some things that just aren't done. Such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees F. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs." Minutes later the dear girl's body is lacquered to death by Auric Goldfinger's Korean manservant...
...days with Ludlam. Joseph Papp and Geraldine Fitzgerald spoke of his prodigious energy. Finally, Everett Quinton -- Ludlam's colleague and for years his lover -- walked onstage to a standing ovation. Throughout the evening he had manfully cavorted through such roles as Flosshilde in Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, Alice in Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide and Lamia the Leopard Woman in Bluebeard. He waited for the cheers to subside and said, "I never felt so alone in my life...
Born in South Africa, the son of a prosperous British rancher, Holmes a Court (the family name dates from the Norman Conquest in 1066) studied law in Perth, in western Australia, and decided to settle there. But the young attorney hit his stride once he got into investing. Often underestimated by his opponents, the lanky Holmes a Court has since 1970 won control of transportation, entertainment, publishing, mining and petroleum concerns around the world. Today, with a net worth of some $250 million, he is reputedly Australia's wealthiest citizen. A reclusive investor, Holmes a Court prefers being at home...
...unbearable, and the odor of the surrounding pig farms has drifted into the center of town. Oblivious to both, the newly returned residents make small talk as they lounge on metal benches in the plaza. In the language of the Tarascan Indians who ruled the area before the Spanish conquest, Huandacareo means "place of speakers." Now, 500 years later, there is little else...