Word: gamier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene but not the character was pure Christie. Serge Rubinstein belonged in spirit to an earlier, gamier era-the turn of the century, when too many of the continental rich were confirming Emile Zola's savage caricatures of their class. His life was a rococo embroidery of lies, boasts, swindles, treacheries, beautiful women and rich living. He was a crook-who called himself an international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata...
...Christine Gamier...