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...films and one of France's top box office stars for four decades; following a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. A factory laborer before becoming an actor, Gabin was best known for his low-key portrayals of handsome, earthy loners: the Spanish legionnaire in La Bandera (1935), the jewel thief in Pépé le Moko (1937), the soldier-mechanic in Jean Renoir's classic, Grand Illusion (1937). His memorable later roles included the lawyer who falls in love with a prostitute (Brigitte Bardot) in Love Is My Profession (1959). As bourgeois in his private life...
This book of photographs, her senior thesis, was the tantalizing unseeable crown jewel in the VES student exhibit last spring; it was clearly the finest work in that show, even hidden in a glass case with only one or two pictures visible...
...intruders-in order to crowd out the real ones. Says Maggie: "The time is coming when we'll have to employ our own egg throwers to throw eggs at us, and, my God, of course, miss their aim, when we go to the opera on a gala night." Jewel and art thieves, Communist lawyers, peculating financiers-all descend on Maggie and leave her fortune in tatters...
Although descriptions of Fenway Park vary, nearly all try to capture its quality of excitement. Sports Illustrated once characterized it as "a jewel of a place" and "all you ever wanted in a ball park--and less." Former Boston Globe sportswriter Peter Gammons called it "mad, sensuous Fenway...
...come to us for something garish." So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor. The latest in nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world's most illustrious jewels and jewel collectors...