Word: dina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majestic beard turned white; his wiry body became stooped. Younger, placid and broad-hipped models came to pose and serve as inspiration. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have seen the figures of all the women of my native province." It was his last favorite model, plump Dina Vierny, who tracked down every work the master did and was largely responsible for assembling the current show. Now in her 40s, she still refers to Maillol as "le patron," vows "he will some day have a museum of his own, even if I have to build it with...
...adds Dina, "even when success came to him at last, he changed nothing of his habits and never lost his great sense of humility. He was the most complete human being of our century, but he never really knew who he was. Perhaps that was his force. Several days before he died, he said to me, 'Ask Bonnard when you see him if he thinks I've made progress. Last time he was here, he didn't say a word...
...anybody objected to the girl personally. At 20, Toni Avril Gardiner is modestly pretty, modestly sized (4 in. shorter than Hussein's 5 ft. 6 in.), modestly educated (like Hussein, she never went to college)-in many ways a better match than Hussein's first wife, Queen Dina, who was taller, seven years older, and holder of an M.A. from Cambridge. Hussein got to know Toni at go-cart races in Amman, and both are fond of fast cars, planes and dancing. "Toni," said a friend, "is not very anything. She's a simple, gay girl...
...Thunderbirds, one of whom makes animal noises, wears a cape and calls himself Batman. But the prosecutor's personal life keeps getting in the way. He seeks the death penalty, but his wife, a Vassar liberal, played with the animation of a damp Post Toasty by Cereal Heiress Dina Merrill, is dead against capital punishment. Yet the D.A. (Edward Andrews) wants to rev the Thunderbirds right into the chair so that he can get the governorship (Hollywood has decided all voters are out for blood). One of the defendants turns out to be the son of a woman (Shelley...
Mended Fences. Hussein's loneliness was perhaps exaggerated, since modern Arab monarchs have given up few of their forebears' fabled prerogatives; but he will need all the sympathy he can get for his proposed second marriage (the first, to Queen Dina, ended in divorce in 1957 after she had borne him a daughter). Hussein has lately been mending his fences with Nasser to secure his shaky throne, and a British Queen in Amman is hardly to Cairo's liking. Moreover, two-thirds of Jordan's population are Palestinian refugees from British partition days. Hussein...