Word: contessas
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...plays a reluctant Judas to Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender...
...sound like a 19th century tone poem. With a sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...
Gervasi has appeared in "Quo Vadis" and "Barefoot Contessa." Segal has appeared in productions at Harvard in French and Greek as well as in English. Lumbard is Director of the New Theater Workshop and has appeared in many Shakespearian productions over the past three years, Claman added...
Married. Henry Fonda, 51, tall, blue-eyed and durable player of heart-of-gold heroes through two decades of Broadway and Hollywood (Mister Roberts, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial); and slim, dark Italian Contessa Aídera Franchetti, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...into a bedroom reunion, but at this point and over the next decade, the plot begins subdividing like an amoeba: 1) Rose takes up with a 20-year-old named Vincent; 2) Sir George dies; 3) Alexis and another of Uncle George's girl friends, an Italian contessa, get high at his funeral and land flat in some French hay; 4) Rose's and Uncle George's daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably early-blooming 13-year-old begins stalking Alexis. At novel's end, Alexis runs off with the contessa, but in effect tells Jenny...