Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...captured by an imperial starship. She is now aboard the Empire's mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...
...Allende spoke on national radio to the workers and peasants who supported him. "Workers of my country," he said, "I have faith in Chile and her destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seems to dominate. You must never forget that sooner or later grand avenues will be opened where free men will march on to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain the sacrifice will not be in vain...
White-haired Fernand Braudel fingers a 13th century Florentine coin, its bronze surface green with age, as he muses on the grand passion of his life: the Mediterranean. "Everything about the Mediterranean has pleased me-the sea, the people, the food. It is a passion that burns you up. And nowadays, for me, the Mediterranean is too strong, too burning. It's all over...
...Alexandra de Markoff. For the Paris house of Nina Ricci, it's Andréa de Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired Photographer Francesco Scavullo to capture Andréa's face...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...