Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banners across the winding Amman streets. The wedding of Jordan's King Hussein and Nur el Hussein (Light of Hussein), nee Elizabeth Halaby in Washington, was a quiet family affair. In a four-minute Muslim ceremony at the palace of Hussein's mother, the blue-suited groom, 42, and his Dior-and-diamond-bedecked bride, 26, exchanged vows in Arabic. Those present, all male according to Islamic practice, included Lisa's father, former Pan Am Chief Najeeb Halaby...
...shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree down by the creek-if the bride and groom can find their way to town, that is. The last known road sign to Luckenbach, one posted about five miles out on the highway, was carried off by a souvenir hunter...
...typically earthy metaphors, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell last week likened the reporters trailing Bert Lance to a group of over-adrenalized bird dogs. "You feed 'em and groom 'em and exercise 'em for six months," said Powell. "And then you finally turn 'em loose and they piss all over the truck and bite roots and eat butterflies. They go crazy...
Reynolds is soon offering aid and comfort to a damsel in distress. She is Sally Field, playing an industrial-show dancer who has deserted a yokel groom on their wedding day. He is a hopeless dummy, but his dad is not. His dad is, in fact, Jackie Gleason, portraying Buford T. Justice, a self-advertising legend among backwoods peace officers. He is determined to recapture Field for his boy. There is an endless chase, funnily staged by Needham. With the help of many CB friends, girl and brew are safely delivered from evil...
Fine's presence is more overt in Elizabeth Lurie's "A Garden Romance," a sequence of theatrical actions built with a dance momentum. Fine is the groom to Ann DiFruscia's bride, and the imaginative scaffolding of theri romance turns on an old-fashioned stand-up bathtub. It sounds gimmicky, but is not; on the contrary, it is the sort of fantasy dance best sustains...