Word: contentedness
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Only once every decade or so, a new cast of characters sweeps into TV commercials and gives the viewing public a more telling picture of the U.S. population as a whole. During the baby-booming 1950s, advertising scenes were filled with contented suburban families. By the late '60s and early...
Bullet holes pockmark the inside and outside walls of the post and liberally ventilate the veranda's tin roof. Some local folks insist that much of the damage was caused around 1916, when Pancho Villa's men rode in for supplies during the Mexican Revolution, though there is in fact...
Jacobi, a Shakespearean best known in the U.S. for the title role in the PBS mini-series I, Claudius, again employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives...
Goldsmith also still has Ginette, after a fashion. Now 51 and divorced ! since 1978, she lives in one wing of Goldsmith's Tudor-style Paris mansion, originally built for the brother of King Louis XIV. In the other wing of the same estate, across a courtyard bright with impatiens, lives...
Donovan's onetime boss, Ronald Reagan, contented himself with a perfunctory announcement: "I have always known Ray Donovan as a man of integrity, and I am happy to see this verdict." But several newspapers once critical of Donovan turned on Merola for bringing an unsupportable indictment. Said the New York...