Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half of the 19th century. He understood every nuance of provincial ambition, every deadly trap a great city lays impersonally for the young adventurer and the sick old man alike. Some of his characters' names have become inter changeable with vices- old man Grandet with avarice, Cousin Bette with envy...
...there. Now it is. The Walt Disney World coat of arms-a terrestrial globe wearing Mickey ears, set in a capital D-is no metaphor but a frank statement of intention. The place is the last example of idealized, high-despotic city planning, a rich hick cousin of all the imaginary and perfect townships that architects from Filarete in the 15th century to Boullée in the 18th wrought from their schematic, authoritarian fantasies but never managed to build. Unlike Kublai Khan's pleasure dome, it exists on a plane of unremitting kitsch, sustained by the most advanced...
...black again. A few days ago, S.B.M.'s president, jovial little Prince Louis de Polignac, announced a profit of $2.5 million for the year ended last March 31 and a 40% rise in the price of S.B.M. stock, to $15.50. No one was more pleased than his third cousin, Prince Rainier, known to Americans as the husband of elegant Movie Star Grace Kelly. Prince Rainier's Monaco government owns two-thirds of the shares...
...acting is uneven and there are lots of awkward moments, but Craig Bowley as Randy, Michael Mitchell as Alec, Bernie Holmberg as their producer (both of them were "in the theater," they explain, before they inherited the hotel), and George Clark as Cousin Warren keep everything except Uncle Harold's corpse (and maybe even that) above water most of the time. Lee Abraham, who directed and also plays Cosmic Debris, stands out--he's polished and in command all the way through...
...Bryn [Evensen] was very consistent--he wasn't right at the top, but he didn't crash much," Carter said. Evensen beat World Cup skier Roland Thoeni of Italy in the Kandahar of the Andes downhill race. Thoeni's cousin, Gustavo Thoeni, was the World Cup ski champion last year...