Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idyl ends. The girl's family retrieves her, and she scrawls on a window with a diamond: "You will forget Henriette." Though heartbroken, Casanova goes on to innumerable other adventures. In Venice, he seduces a 15-year-old convent girl, then begins a violent affair with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed...
Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
...Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists...
...Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Life is harsh, but the living of it sweet, in this island idyl of the wine-dark sea by one of Greece's finest novelists...
...time. The tokens of their happiness accumulated: a villa at Sirmione, two palaces in Verona, numerous art objects, jewelry, autos, motorboats and joint bank accounts. Their love, it seemed, thrived on money, and money thrived on love. And yet last week, after ten years of this golden idyl. Callas, 35, and Meneghini, 64, announced that they were "definitely and irreparably" separated...