Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly standing at a mission waiting for a handout when Lance came along," said the mother of Hollywood Starlet Jill (The Lost World) St. John. Last week, in fact, Jiil was standing in a flossy suite in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel when Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 24, came along and took her hand in marriage. It looked like a happy match all round. Lance's mother, Sextuple Bride Barbara Mutton, 47, apparently had no objections to Jill, 19, daughter of a well-to-do Beverly Hills electronics wiring maker of German-Jewish lineage; neither...
...region. Within the next half century, Poblet became a geographical and spiritual fortress of the combined houses of Barcelona and Aragon, and the resting place of their heroes. A century later, Poblet was a focal point of Catalonia's losing war with Castile. Philip II, Hapsburg heir to the entire peninsula, built El Escorial, near Madrid, partly to overshadow the relatively provincial pantheon at Poblet. The venerable monastery fell from being a seat of kings to the function of being a place of refuge. In 1835 an anti-monastic revolution swept all Spain. Poblet's monks fled, leaving...
...which persists in Spain as nowhere else. Screens and iron chandeliers had come from Ramon Martí's hands. But it was with a crucifix for a Poblet chapel that Martí, a "mute, inglorious Milton" if there ever was one, had shown himself a son and proper heir of the early Gothic tradition at its most triumphant...
...career, he was concerned more than ever with the most evanescent effects in nature. The swift slashings of the abstract expressionists shut out what Monet so reverently embraced. Last week's exhibition made plain-as the Modern had perhaps not intended-that Monet has no heir...
Would Akihito, the first heir to the throne ever to marry a commoner, bend to the stifling ritual that is gradually isolating his father, the Emperor? Would he allow his son to be taken from him at the age of three to be raised by chamberlains in a separate palace? Akihito had said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed...