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...Charters Unlimited in Rowayton, Conn., says, "Nothing does more for the ego than to be aboard the biggest, most beautiful yacht as it pulls into the harbor." Rates run $49,000 a week for Parts V, $30,000 for the Atlantique (which has been chartered by, among others, Sophia Loren, former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and FORTUNE 500 executives) and $29,000 for Never Say Never. The charter party must also pay for fuel ($50 to $75 an hour), food, dockage and tips for the spiffy crew...
Berkeley's history of art department earlier this year asked Clark, an expert on 19th century French art, if he were interested in a lifetime position there, said the department's acting chairman Loren W. Partridge. The Berkeley department approved Clark'snomination, and the offer is currently undergoingthe university's review process, Partridge said...
...HAVE those days when we wish we just hadn't gotten out of bed. Thanksgiving 1986, was one of those days for one Alexandra Sternburghen alias Viveca Von Loren (Jane Fonda), a down-and-out, little-to-be-thankful-for actress. Lolling around in the sheets of a stranger's bed, she rolls over to find that her lover of the previous eve has a large machete stuck in the middle of his chest. "If that's one of those trick knives, you can pull it out now." Its no trick. Its genuine ginsu...
Lost in this bleak landscape is the vivacious Madame Von Loren. Supported by her hairdresser ex-husband (Raul Julia), she stumbles from one bottle of Stolichnaya to the next, oblivious to the craziness of the world outside her pink walls. Oblivious, that is, until she becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a man she doesn't even remember meeting, let alone killing...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the international antiques business. When these books succeed in evoking an environment or ethos, the reader can more readily forgive any lack of suspense or ingenuity in the plot. Sometimes the writer depends on heavy research or personal knowledge: Tennis Star Ilie Nastase and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Writer Frank Deford both published...