Word: duked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louis?" scoffs Marie Antoinette. "He has the brains of a chicken." In the metaphoric excess of cinema courtiers, the Duke d'Escargot reminds her: "The brains of a chicken coupled with the claws of two eagles may hatch the eggs of our destruction...
Perfumed Fringes. Still, this is one French Revolution that is too much fun for anyone to lose his head over critical objections. The film's condemned premise is that the revolution could have been averted. The Duke de Sisi of Corsica and a bumptious farmer have their respective sets of twin boys mixed up by. a harried doctor. One unmatched pair (Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland) become the murderous, exquisitely aberrant "Corsican Brothers," existing on the perfumed fringes of the aristocracy. The other two (also Wilder and Sutherland) grow up to be swinish revolutionary hangers...
Upstairs at "21," Angier Biddle Duke, gauze-wrapped lemon wedge in hand, is poised over a plate of bluepoints, but stops in mid-squeeze to greet Old Friend Lennie. Quick kisses from salad-eating ladies, then Lyons darts downstairs again to say hello to Walter Cronkite, who is lunching with Dinah Shore. On his way out, Lyons helps himself to two of the hard candies in the bowl near the door -one for himself, one "in case I meet somebody...
...will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth show and dinner were Nixon's own suggestion, and nobody else...
...wasn't enjoying basketball there." Smith said. "All he did at Duke was play basketball," Smith was a bit reluctant to elaborate further on Fitzsimmons's reasons for transferring, but said that one of the features he likes about Harvard is the fact that the stress isn't on athletics-a reason frequently cited by athletes who decide to come here...