Word: fiances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official." So he said it: "Mrs. Nixon and I are very honored to announce the engagement of our daughter Tricia to Edward Cox of New York." Petite and elegant in a low-cut white gown bordered with ostrich feathers, Tricia led her fiancé onto the stage to warm applause. She outshone everybody that evening-the guest of honor, Ireland's Prime Minister John Lynch: her mother, whose 59th birthday was part of the celebration; and her prospective in-laws, whom Nixon failed to introduce. It will be a White House wedding, the eighth for a daughter...
...bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
...hard to reconcile George Ames with the warm, patient George Caldwell of The Centaur, whom Updike modeled on his father. Seeing Belle as the bitchy mother in Of the Farm is easier. When Eric's fiancée laughs in embarrassment at one of George's most bitter comments, Belle purrs, "How nice it must be to be so lovely that hatred amuses you." Still, she knows herself: "The sensation of falling in a dream always ends with the relief of waking up, but from the sensations of a mother-in-law there would be no awakening...
...finally said yes. The former model was the first to be paid $100 an hour, and in one month in 1936 appeared on 15 magazine covers. She is an actress (nine movies), columnist, advertising executive, beauty consultant and author. Still, she could not quite explain what her textile executive fiancé, Palen Flagler, 58, has over Gable. Or Stewart, for that matter. Whatever it is, it obviously came along at the right time; at 56 the eclectic career woman says she is finally ready to settle down-though she cautions that she plans to "keep busy" after the September wedding...