Word: countess
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...Hmmph!" she snorts. "You can take it, cowboy. Jes' go on back to your filthy c-countess. I ain't never...
...wonder where she picked up the Midwestern accent, consider chasing after her. And what's all this countess business...
Eddie (Sam Shephard) loves May (Kim Basinger), and May, despite her habit of kicking Eddie in the crotch, loves him in return. But it seems Eddie's been horsing around with a pistol-packing millionaire countess, while May's been seeing a dough-faced lawn maintenance man (Randy Quaid). The whole seedy business is overseen by an alcoholic desert rat (Harry Dean Stanton) who may or may not be May and Eddie's father, who may or may not have driven his wife to suicide, and who may or may not be guilty of bigamy. Ahem...
Meanwhile, in perhaps the most intriguing development so far, a woman placed an obituary in the Aug. 24 edition of the London Times. The notice: "Von Hessen. On August 21st at Penzance, Cornwall. Timothy, Mark and James. Dearly beloved sons of Margarita Countess Von Hessen and the late Count Richardt. Funeral service to be held in Germany. Donation to the NSPCC (the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)." Suspicious of the ad, the Times checked and found that no such deaths had been reported in Penzance and that Princess Margaret of Hesse, 72, who happened...
Geneva lost its independence to the French Revolution. France, which almost completely surrounds the city, annexed it in 1798, but after the fall of Napoleon it finally became the 22nd canton of Switzerland. By then it was just a peaceful backwater. Franz Liszt came here after eloping with the Countess d'Agoult, and he composed a piano piece inspired by the city's church bells. "Happy is he who can stay long by these shores," wrote another aristocratic visitor, Lord Byron...