Word: gilpin
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DIED. John Gilpin, 53, celebrated dancer with London's Festival Ballet in the 1950s, who on July 28 became the third husband of Monaco's Princess Antoinette; of a heart attack; in London. A dynamic artist whose striking good looks enhanced his roles in such classic ballets as Le Spectre de la Rose and Giselle, Gilpin served as artistic director of the Festival Ballet from 1962 to 1965. He met Antoinette, the sister of Prince Rainier, at a Monte Carlo performance...
...central character is the rebellious, goofy boy who becomes a college dropout, an AWOL sailor, a protesting scholar and a waiflike pornographer. He could be a mere shnook. But as shrewdly played by Jack Gilpin, he is a natural winner with a compulsion to foul up to prove his independence. Ann McDonough, in the unshowy part of the girl, is compelling in the play's best moment: having married Gilpin's conventional younger brother, she sees Gilpin come through the window in his sailor's uniform to woo her away. She is all but ready...
...children, for their part, are a rather unappetizing lot. Billy (Jack Gilpin), the elder son, is a do-nothing, want-to-do-nothing who cadges alimony money from his mother Delia (Pauline Flanagan), Bernard's first wife. Delia, who is drying out in a nearby sanatorium, pops in long enough to fall off the wagon and pour a kettle of scalding rage on Bernard...
Despite their poor record and unpredictable results, economic reprisals will undoubtedly remain a tempting weapon in international confrontations. Says Political Scientist Robert Gilpin of Princeton: "Sanctions never work to change a country's policy, but they will always hurt, and they are an important political gesture." Yet the nebulous political effects of such gestures should always be weighed against the concrete economic costs and benefits. - By Charles Alexander. Reported by Lee Griggs/Abilene and Gary Lee/Washington