Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manchester, he brooded over the article, then startled his aides by bringing it up after he had finished the first part of his speech. That part was devoted to answering charges in an earlier Loeb editorial that Muskie had laughed at an aide's sneering reference to Franco-American New Englanders as "Canucks." Someone named Paul Morrison had claimed that he had witnessed the incident while Muskie was visiting a drug treatment center in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and had sent a crudely written letter to Loeb castigating Muskie. By week's end Morrison had not been found. Reporters...
...Tread-on-Me-Blues"--composer Stephen Sondheim seem's to have been the evening's guiding light) is a harlequin-outfitted Busby Berkely spectacular which has nothing at all to do with the plot and is probably all the better for it. As proper compliment to the direction, Franco Colavecchia has done a swell job of set design--his complicated arrangement of backdrops and scrims are like a series of Saul Steinberg New Yorker covers--and B. Allen Odom has contributed a witty display of costuming. Parmer Fuller's musical direction at moments approaches mere cocktail music (in which...
Director Laurence Senelick's fine staging against designer Franco Colavecchia's gray gauze castle walls follows closely Strindberg's instructions but with an updated and perhaps too colloquial translation. David Gullette's swaggering Captain seems too much a continental officer to have to resort to such declasse words as "bullshit." But on his own time Gallette never falters and strikes matches with such extraordinary virtuosity it is surprising he has such a difficult time with his cigar. Darcy Pulliam does nearly as well as Alice and perhaps it was only an echo from the medieval decor that gave some...
...form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays for dinner perhaps four nights a week, and Franco, Justin's Italian chef, whips up a meatless pasta for her mostly vegetarian diet. She eats fish, but no meat. Most of their friends are in show business, but their notion of a good time is a quiet weekend at George Harrison's estate in Surrey...
Jackie divorces Aristotle Onassis "as a protest against the repressive policies of the current Greek regime." Below she is seen nightclubbing in New York with new beaux (l. to r.) RICHARD DALEY, S.I. HAYAKAWA and FRANCISCO FRANCO...