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...quitclaim on the empire founded by his great-great-grandfather; and Princess Henriette von Auersperg, 35, elegant blonde daughter of one of Austria's oldest (13th century) houses; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Blühnbach castle former retreat of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination triggered World...
After a hollow, hilarious party at which the guests talk only in the language of commercials, a television director named Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) decides that he needs his baby sitter more than his children do. With her in tow, he ricochets from Paris to the Riviera to an idyllic island where he hopes to end his days. He gets his wish: what begins as a fable of ennui ends as a parable of evil...
...baby sitter, Marianne (Anna Karina) was once the petite amie of gunrunners. Along the trek she cuts one midget ex-associate dead by blithely plunging scissors into his neck; eventually she runs off with another smuggler. Ferdinand finds the violence catching and, in an explosive finale, he erases all points of the triangle...
...first how-to books, it was much cribbed and often illuminated; the loveliest of the versions that survive is an edition with gold leaf on vellum that once belonged to Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain. It can now be seen in a display of medieval masterworks at The Cloisters in Manhattan. The miniaturist is unknown, but he seems to have followed the hunt almost as well as his author, perhaps even ridden to hounds with...
...rights to Sabah, as the Malaysians claim, or simply leased those rights, as is maintained in Manila. There is nothing much new about the Philippine claim-former President Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this summer when President Ferdinand Marcos seized on it as a handy way to win votes for next year's national elections. In what appears to have been a bid for support from the 3,000,000 Moslems living in the southern parts of the archipelago, Marcos dredged up the issue and signed...