Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desert with two overage Hollywood monuments as its stars-Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne. Though they have been around the movie business for nearly half a century, the stars had never acted together before joining the cast of Rooster Cogburn. TIME Correspondent Leo Janos was on hand to watch Duke and Kate. His report...
...either to commercialism and top-40 rock, or to original, honest music that disregards industry and public pressure to record million-selling albums. "Be-Bop Tango" is among the best cuts on the new record because it typifies Zappa music and Zappa humor. If you listen carefully to George Duke's scat singing, you hear strains of Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" and a Zappa remark about 4/4 time: "It's a pedestrian beat. You don't dance...
...file a unanimous opinion in an effort to muster all the court's prestige for a possible confrontation with a recalcitrant President. Inevitably, the opinion "suffers intellectually from the fact of that unanimity," which was "achieved at some cost to a fuller examination of the issues," said Duke's William Van Alstyne...
...fifth wife of Greek Shipping Baron Stavros Niarchos and ex-spouse of his arch rival Aristotle Onassis; of an apparent heart attack; at the Niarchos town house in Paris. Blonde, willowy Tina had already been through two marriages (14 years with Onassis, ten with John Spencer-Churchill, now the Duke of Marlborough) before her sensational 1971 wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping pills. Tina...
...handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon) and Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas) and extend beyond it to the end of the courtly tradition, as did the original Arthurian legends. What is missing is passion, a quality essential to such a subject. Without it, for all its frosty beauty, Lancelot of the Lake looks like a museum diorama of the Middle Ages...