Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They invented the summer season on the Riviera. The guest list at their 14-room Villa America near Antibes included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. F. Scott Fitzgerald used the Murphys as models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. They were the subjects of Calvin Tomkins' 1971 bestseller Living Well Is the Best Revenge...
Byrne's escapades will only re-emphasize to voters the reasons Washington won in the first place. He has 20 years of a shining political career behind him and all the proper local qualifications. Born in the city's Cook County Hospital, he graduated from Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable High School (named after the city's first settler, who was Black) and Chicago's Roosevelt University and finished eighth in his Law School class at Northwestern. The factors that built him his solid Black support are not going to go away. And for Byrne and other party-jumping Democrats, busily...
...Beckwiths invite the boy, Jean-Claude Guerin, to visit them. The tyke(Sebastian Dungan) turns out to be an E.T. figure. His personality is based entirely on his foreignness: Bob's daughter Jessica (Arlene Mclntyre) likes him because he speaks French, and Bob makes the obligatory American attempt to explain baseball to the child. And like E.T., Jean-Claude's very presence causes problems, especially for adults...
...number of overdramatized scenes, the tensions Jean-Claude causes between Bob and Sheila and Jean-Claude are unpacking his suitcase; their eyes meet and they stare at each other for two full minutes, The boy looks guilty, despite the fact that he does not know he is Bob's son. This excuse for tension is broken when Sheila's daughter enters the room...
Three years after Jean Harris fired four bullets into Herman Tarnower, the case of the headmistress and the diet doctor still has the power to engage our imagination. The public's appetite for details of the murder trial had been whetted by the social standing of the protagonists, as Diana Trilling pointed out in her brilliant 1981 study, Mrs. Harris. But the abiding fascination of the case resides in the story of the high-minded, stylish lady who descended to the depths of self-abasement and violence...