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...nothing are Lauder's curtains copied from the Schonbrunn Palace. In the past, according to Israel, she has beguiled the press with tales of a gently bred Hungarian-Viennese mother, a Czech father with imperial connections, a childhood spent on an estate in Flushing, N.Y. Now she tells most of the essential truth: her parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and she grew up in the shabby Corona section of Queens. Israel gleefully supplies many more humble details, but Lauder gives what is probably the most important one: as a child, little Josephine Esty Mentzer was ashamed...
...simple. Cassidy, 77, demonstrated that last week when Belknap/Harvard University Press published the first volume (A-C) of his unique Dictionary of American Regional English, its 1,056 pages bulging with bits of vernacular from A, as in a-coming, to czezski, the word around old Chicago for a Czech or Bohemian (also butchsky). In its scope and thoroughness, Cassidy's dictionary is unmatched as a kind of refuge for colloquialisms threatened with extinction, largely by the homogenizing influence of television...
...afternoons, they showed no signs of wilting against the best players in the U.S. Mandlikova outpowered Chris Evert Lloyd, 30, in the semis (4-6, 6-3, 6-3), then in the finals wrested the title away from Martina Navratilova, 28 (7-6, 1-6, 7-6), herself born Czech but a U.S. citizen since 1981. In his semifinal match, Lendl ousted Jimmy Connors, 33 (6-2, 6-3, 7-5), then carved up John McEnroe, 26 (7-6, 6-3, 6-4). The check for each winner...
...original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster, N.Y., Hammer composes the score for each episode from a rough cut sent to him by network courier. That is another break with...
Lendl's victory combined with Hana Mandlikova's upset of Martina Navratilova on Saturday produced a Czechoslovakian sweep of the two top events. In addition Czech Helena Sukova teamed up with West Germany's Claudia Kohde-Kilsch yesterday to dethrone Navratilova and Pam Shriver as the womens' doubles champs...