Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...
...deplore the injustice art fashion did to Avery without, however, going to the opposite extreme of making him into a Yankee Matisse, a painter (in the recent words of Critic Hilton Kramer) comparable to late Turner and late Cézanne, displaying "the kind of archetypal grandeur and sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure...
...country's reputation as a model of African capitalism and stable black self-rule in the midst of a region of turbulence. Suddenly, Kenya was revealed as a country racked, beneath its placid surface, by savage and dangerous political and economic tensions. Says Peter Frank, manager of the Hilton Hotel in downtown Nairobi: "The magic that was Kenya disappeared on a Sunday morning...
...gaming floors. Five years ago, even a fee of $100,000 or more a week seemed a bargain if a star actually pulled customers onto the gaming floors. Just before his death in 1977, Elvis Presley was paid about $125,000 a week by the Las Vegas Hilton, for example, and, in the way salaries are measured, he was worth every penny. "Elvis not only sold out every show, but we had to turn down thousands of requests for tickets every day," says Hilton Executive Vice President Henri Lewin. "He would have been reasonable if he had cost the hotel...
...showed a deserted Moscow street in the early morning. Walter Cronkite-in the U.S.S.R. preparing a special documentary-lectured on the meaning of America's latest assassination scare. What, Cronkite asked rhetorically, would the Russians think of America when they arose and heard of the events outside the Capitol Hilton? America would again seem to be cascading out of control. The political violence endemic to our democracy since 1963 would seem by implication to justify the domestic repressive measures of the Soviet Union, where political violence from the populace has been nearly non-existent...