Word: duchess
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...members, drinking buddies, co-workers and choirs, all decked in the regalia of their proudest pastimes and fixed in the postures of their social roles. We see them keeping up appearances in every, sense of the phrase, whether they are the Distressed Gentlefolks Aid Association or the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, with their staff of almost 150, dwarfed by the mansion that will endure long after they are gone...
...City's hautprep Trinity School. Besides, she adds, "nobody seems to like their own hair." In Los Angeles, where red is the hair flavor of the day, the aim among youngsters often is to imitate such scarlet-tressed idols as Teen Actress Molly Ringwald and Sarah Ferguson, the new Duchess of York. Older trendies are often attracted by the instant but revocable shock value. Explains Allan Mottus, publisher of the Informationist, a beauty-industry newsletter: "Monday through Friday you can have one life-style and then change it on Saturday night. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde lives...
...tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few ... When Oriana's subjects read the result of the interview, they often complain that she has fabricated the quotes. She denies it. But she does take a few liberties. 'I transcribe the whole interview,' she says, 'then I make it into what I print...
...devoted young wife Lady Windermere (Rebecca M. Harrington ’08, who is also a Crimson editor) explaining her morals to a well-spoken suitor, played by Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08. Within minutes, however, her self-described Puritanism is challenged when her friend, the bombastic Duchess of Berwick, played by Jen C. Sullivan ’09, tells her about what all of the upper crust has been discussing for months: the large sums of money that Lord Windermere (Brian B. C. Polk ’09) has been paying to Mrs. Erlynne (Allison B. Kline...
...Duchess of York? Yeah, she called me on the phone. We're talking about doing some charity work together, building schools...