Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to kill the debauched, despotic Duke of Florence, only to find that the new Duke is as worthless as the old. In a role that is superficially as neurotic and high-souled and weak, and is as full of dissembling and soliloquy, as Hamlet's, Gerard Philipe played with great effect. If possibly overstressed, Lorenzaccio's effeteness stood in vivid contrast to Philippe Noiret's gruffly selfish Duke. Such performances were part of a simple but eloquent stage world-the absence of scenery made up for by brilliant lighting and costumes, the multitude of scenes moving...
...indeed interesting. Although you mention Rivera, Picasso and Gris, you omit friendship with Fellow Artist Modigliani. GERARD ZIERLER...
...months Gerard Mignone, 38, an unemployed Brooklyn milkman, had been salivating at the very sight of NBC's gaudy giveaway, The Price Is Right. The show promises a wondrous pack of prizes to any shrewd appraiser in the home audience who submits (via postcard) their correct prices. Mignone sent in hundreds of cards, became obsessed with the show. To check on prices, he organized an intricate filing system, hounded the Department of Commerce and called manufacturers all over the country. Said he: "I got a phone bill I'm afraid to show my wife. I spent $200 tracing...
...sinful, said a Dominican priest last week. The Dutch Reformed Church Synod on Public Immorality in Transvaal, South Africa had condemned lotteries as dishonest, and warned that "calling on God to satisfy our own selfish desires through the medium of lotteries and gambling is profanity and a sacrilege." Father Gerard Marie Antonius Jansen snapped back in the Afrikaans-language Catholic magazine, Die Brug (The Bridge) : "What appears to us as chance or coincidence is no coincidence to God . . . Someone who prays to God to allow him to win a prize in order that he may take better care...
...GERARD FAY London...