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Clint Eastwood stood in front of the Hotel du Cap's Eden Roc restaurant and surveyed this fairy-tale domain. As Bird, his bebop bio-pic of Jazzman Charlie Parker, was unspooling a few miles down the Riviera at the 41st Cannes Film Festival, Eastwood reminisced about the small indignities that beset a larger- than-life movie hero. On a trip to Cannes in 1985, his sponsors had set him up in a portside yacht near the Palais des Festivals. But the yacht's ceilings were too low to accommodate his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, even when he stooped...
...ladies that has gradually emerged as a powerful force for social change. At its annual meeting three weeks ago in Chicago, some 900 delegates voted to standardize admissions procedures, pulling down, in effect, some of the blood-test barriers that for years preserved the league as a high Wasp domain. The vote, said incoming President Maridel Moulton, "will signal to the world that we really are an organization that wishes to be open to any woman who wants to make a commitment to volunteerism...
...novel that made him famous. This time out, surface events largely conform to the dictates of plausibility. No one ascends bodily into heaven; the famous plague of insomnia that swept through Solitude here becomes literal, recurrent ravages of cholera morbus. The bizarre and outlandish are relegated to the domain of private lives, to characters who must construct for themselves elaborate fictions to follow in order to stand the shocks and tedium of being alive...
Although Ball's shows did not defy the female homemaker convention, in many ways the programs were ahead of their time in portraying women confident enough to act on their own, outside of their stereotypical domain. Unlike most of the bubble-headed, husband-dominated wives of 50's sitcoms, Lucy was feisty and determined. On I Love Lucy, it was obvious that, in one way or another, Lucy and Ethel really ran and controlled the show. And later, on The Lucy Show, Lucy and Viv were surely among TV's first single mothers; Viv's character was even divorced...
...domain of Harvard basketball, the lefty-righty dilemma is not as evident because, like in soccer, the players are taught to dribble and shoot both ways...