Word: heiress
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...vita turned really dolce for Marisa in 1971, when Luchino Visconti signed her for her first film as the elegant young mother in Death in Venice. Bob Fosse then hired her to play the German-Jewish department store heiress in Cabaret. Both parts required Marisa to appear both remote and vulnerable. She is very good...
...Sears official somewhat lefthandedly: "We are in for the long pull. We aim for a broad middle market, which militates against jumping quickly in and out with new merchandise. Bloomingdale's is clearly one of a kind." Among customers there are carpings about high prices, crowds and service. Heiress-Actress Dina Merrill likes the store's ice cream and housewares but buys no furniture there; she says the prices are too high. Sniffs Ilene Barth, editor of a Manhattan weekly newspaper: "People who go to Bloomingdale's don't trust their own taste...
...kidnap hideout. The hostage was Tiede Herrema, 54, Dutch manager of a foreign-owned steel plant who had been abducted near Monaleen, four miles from Limerick, apparently by Irish Republican Army extremists. The kidnapers demanded the release of three notorious I.R.A. terrorists, including Bridget Rose Dugdale, 34, the militant heiress and Ph.D. in economics who is serving a nine-year sentence in Limerick prison for hijacking a helicopter and for stealing $20 million worth of paintings from a private collector. One of the kidnapers was believed to be Eddie Gallagher, known I.R.A. Provo and putative father of Dugdale...
...magazine last week printed Part 1 of the first comprehensive and convincing account of Patty Hearst's life on the lam. The story, which the writers claim they got from three sources they would not reveal even if threatened with jail, said among other things that the heiress was driven across the country at least twice by Sports Activist Jack Scott (see THE NATION). Indeed, Scott figures so heavily in the detailed narrative that he appears to be its prime source...
...drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, put it: "Would the San Francisco papers have reacted in the same spirit of cooperation if a Bolivian tin heiress had been kidnaped instead of a local publisher's daughter...