Word: kahlil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher than they were several years ago. Says the manager of Los Angeles Tuxedo Center: "There is definitely a return to the '30s look ?chic, elegant tuxedos." In Chicago, I. Magnin's bridal-wear sales are up 70% over last year. After the era of write-it-yourself Kahlil Gibran barefoot weddings, the large traditional marriage ritual and reception are returning...
...Willie is a roughneck with a poet's soul. When his dander isn't up he is courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie...
...called The Bell Jar, which was shocking to her and difficult to understand, and when she returned it, asking for another, the librarian said that as far as she knew The Bell Jar was the only serious book about grieving women the library had." Instead, Betsy finds solace in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet...
...posited that all of human knowledge has been fed into Proteus, but it seems to be fixated on two authors. One is Sade. How else explain the frequency with which it contrives to place its loved one in variously humiliating bondage scenes? The other is surely Kahlil Gibran, from whom it has obviously borrowed its sententious prose style. In the end, Proteus manages to get itself destroyed-too big for its breeches as it were. But not before it effects a kind of reincarnation: the child Christie conceives looks exactly like the one she lost to cancer. There are enough...
...brace of former lovers (male), flies West to work on her film, and there finds the vacant, curiously dippy Josh, a 27-year-old aspiring screenwriter who is to be the love of her life. For now, anyway, Isadora composes lines to him that read like hard-core Kahlil Gibran: "My soul is mine;/ My mouth belongs...