Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years for unjustly killing her fiancé as a collaborationist. His brother, who dutifully manages the family glass foundry, has been cuckolded by the count. His neglected adolescent daughter has a bad outbreak of mystical acne. And his wife, low hen in the family pecking order, is just a plaintive misfit...
...November Murphy got a better job in the U.S., and announced to the airline that he planned to resign. On the afternoon of Dec. 3 he met his fiancée, an airline hostess, when her plane stopped over briefly in Ciudad Trujillo. He told her that he was headed, by official request, for the presidential palace. After that, Pilot Murphy vanished...
...Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi that his only child, early-ripening Princess Shanaz, 16, daughter by the Shah's first wife (Egypt's Princess Fawzia, divorced by the Shah in 1948 for her failure to bear him a son), will soon be married. Her fiancé: U.S.educated (University of Utah) Ardashir Zahedi, 28, son of Iran's ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi who, after helping to boot weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh from the premiership in 1953, was later himself edged out by the Shah amidst charges of corruption in Zahedi's regime. The Zahedis...
Jean Berthier is the public prosecutor of the town of Bergerane. One hot Sun day he is lying on the bank of the Rhone River, his young fiancée asleep in his arms. Brilliantly successful at 30, he is a stiff and formal fellow who would feel embarrassed just to be caught in public with his jacket off. A young girl, evidently injured in a fall from her bike, comes limping down to the river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action...
...hesitates, does nothing. When his fiancée awakes, he says that he too has been asleep, and they leave...