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Around the World on ?5. Belle was a born courtesan, and she was proud of her profession. Her definition of the term owes less to Webster's dictionary ("a loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess...
...amorous passion of a Maori courtesan is something quite different from the passivity of a Parisian cocotte-something "very different...
...well as Ulla Jacobson and Harriet Anderson look. What is most disappointing is Bergman's failure to make the most of his material, since many tiresome moments could be redeemed with more candid photography. The best performances are given by Bjornstrand and by Naima Wifstrand, who plays an aged courtesan with charm and familiarity...
Implausibly pretty and dazzlingly blonde, Zsa Zsa fielded references to her unprivate love life with wide-eyed candor that was disarming, and left her unabashed (her recent flibbertigibbeting with Ramfis Trujillo got her denounced in Congress as "apparently the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour"). She even broke in on that most cherished of TV sacraments, the commercial, once got Paar so flustered by interrupting his Norelco razor sales pitch ("It will cut him!" she cried) that he screamed: "It won't cut anything!" The audience was delighted. "Just what I expected," bubbled Paar after the show...
...Mercedes-Benz and a $17,000 chinchilla coat in the U.S. for Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor (TIME, May 19). Predicted Ohio's Hays, with spade-calling confidence in his congressional immunity: "If he keeps on fooling around with Zsa Zsa Gabor, who apparently is the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour,* the old man is going to have to raise the ante...