Word: honeymooner
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...limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent his honeymoon. The Garden of Allah, which opened with an 18-hour party, was a haven for writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker...
...Mitterrand faces a major challenge from people of his own party's stripe: French workers. After a honeymoon period of benign cooperation with the government, unions are becoming increasingly unruly. Last month a walkout disrupted production at the country's two major automobile companies, Renault and Citroën. Laborers at both firms were demanding higher wages and other benefits. Coming from the Socialist President's natural constituency, such unrest should remind Mitterrand that support can never be taken for granted, and that in politics, seven years, not to say 14, is a very long time...
...most meaningless and banal question in White House news coverage is when does the President's honeymoon end. If it is a honeymoon between President and press, the marriage never existed...
...about a new President are not the same thing: public and press want to give every new man a chance (there have been too many failed presidencies of late); it also takes the press a while to size up how a President and his new appointees respond to situations. Honeymoons are customarily proclaimed to be at an end when a frustrated President takes to blaming the press for his failing popularity. By this and other signs, Reagan's honeymoon is over, but there are some twists to the familiar plot...
...affecting is the repetition of the Beatles' "If I fell in love with you Would you promise to be true... 'cause I couldn't stand the pain." First, as George packs his things to leave, he and Faith sing the song in French, in happy reminiscence of honeymoon days in Provence. Is the irony meant to come through only to those educated in French, or is it assumed that every viewer has the lyrics deep enough under his pop-cultured hide that they are aroused just by the melody? Then Faith must sing it again--now translated into English--while...