Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marylou Whitney got robbed of $780,000 worth at Saratoga a year ago, and their insurance premiums must be ferocious. Coins can be better guarded, but someone recently stole Willis du Font's collection only the other day he got back a single coin worth $100,000. His cousin, Alexis I. du Pont, may be better off with his collection of antique airplanes, though they take up so much room that the poor fellow has had to build himself a complete airport...
...first installment, Shakespeare sticks closely to business. There are in Richard II no scenes of comic relief such as adorn the three succeeding installments. Here the dramatist concentrates on four main phases: Richard's regnal recklessness: his cousin Bolingbroke's victorious invasion to retrieve his rightful property; Richard's voluntary abdication; and Bolingbroke's assured assumption of the throne as Henry...
...reasons until 1608), ought to be the supreme example of Richard's artistic management, the culmiation of a life-long series of shows. It is he who arranged it, he who has staged it, and he who stars in it. But Madden, now garbed in gray, tells Bolingbroke, "Here, cousin, seize the crown," and beckons with a finger. On yielding up the crown and sceptre, Richard's hands tremble and his voice stutters. In short, Richard the Actor has failed; and this is unacceptable. Still, Madden does strike straight to the heart in his outcry, "Mine eyes are full...
Auchincloss is Real, and so is his cousin Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jackie Kennedy's stepfather. Birmingham pronounces the Auchinclosses "the definitive family of American Society." Although he is not abnormally giddy, as society writers go, he says prettily that "the lacy branches of the Auchincloss family tree spread across Society's entire landscape...
...names were there. Smoky, the drunken horse from Cat Ballou, Old Fooler, star of The Rounders, and currently seen under Burt Lancaster in The Scalphunters. Mr. Ed and Fury, once title horses in TV series bearing their names. Syn Cat, the cat who was That Darn Cat. Cousin Bessie, the chimp from The Beverly Hillbillies. Bruce, who was the ocelot in Honey West. Rhubarb, who gave that never-to-be-forgotten performance as the cat in Breakfast at Tiffany's. And all the young stars of tomorrow: Willie the bear, soon to make his debut...