Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. In these two lightly plotted and wickedly brilliant novellas about a New Year's Eve amorous adventure, and the about-face of a lesbian schoolmistress, Novelist Brophy displays the elegant artifices and tricks of style of a latter-day Ronald Firbank.
TOLEDO. The Spanish pavilion has three restaurants. The first-class Toledo serves fine French food in an elegant décor, and the service is superb. $5-$25.* The Granada features an all-Spanish menu with cold gazpacho soup, paella and sangría (red wine with soda) at slightly...
This time he brought something less dangerous: a set of goose-down pillows, "worth $75 apiece," for Tshombe's uneasy head. Explained the Eagle: "My wife didn't want his head resting on the same pillows as Adoula's." He also brought a mysterious offer of $500...
∙ASHLAND, ORE. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the oldest in the U.S. (1935). In the remote forests, casting has to be done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany'...
Unfortunately, the deadest characters in Marnie are the live ones, for they are only skeletons fleshed with syndromes. As the patient husband, Connery performs with pallid competence, uncertain whether his role requires him to be a compulsive armchair analyst or a sadist in love. He seems to yearn for the...