Word: iii
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Julian marries Miss Alice in Act III, upon which she and her entourage at once prepare to leave him. They call themselves "agents"; they are certainly worldlings; they may be Fate's Furies. Holding a mock trial and firing a mortal bullet into Julian's stomach, they proceed to teach him what Albee believes he knows. Man is alone. The universe is a void. Whatever illusion or symbolic replica of faith man invents to still his fears and help him accept the inevitability of his destiny may be called Tiny Alice...
German-descended George III may have lost the American colonies, but he brought the greatest royal acquisitions from Italy to England. Through a vendor, Joseph Smith, who wheedled a post as consul to Venice, the King's additions to the royal collection increased by batches of Canaletto. Horace Walpole scorned Smith as "the merchant of Ven ice," but that shrewd gentleman sold his purchases for some $300,000 to the King on the installment plan-with interest. George Ill's wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg requested a sketch of Florence's Uffizi Gallery from a compatriot named Johann...
...system at all," says Warren Olney III, director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. "It's a chaotic mess." Olney points significantly at Detroit, which has not had a U.S. commissioner for 16 years. Detroit's federal judges serve as committing magistrates themselves. "You don't find bail-bond brokers hanging around the courthouse in Detroit," says Olney, "which raises the suspicion that maybe one of the commissioners' first functions is to keep bail bondsmen in business." Olney concludes: "Detroit is better off without a U.S. commissioner...
Married. Charles Evans Hughes III, 49, Manhattan architect, grandson of the Chief Justice, and Kimberly Jean Wiss, 40, freelance sportswriter, record holder for the largest fish ever landed by a woman (a 1,525-lb. black marlin); both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Divorced. By Sue Lyon, 18, cine-nymphet (Lolitd) and teen tease (The Night of the Iguana): Hampton Fancher III, 26, sometime flamenco dancer, who was banned from the Iguana set for Lyonizing Sue; on grounds of mental cruelty; after ten months of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...