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...recent years, as the "Kennedy cousin" generation has come to maturity, Hyannis Port and the rambling family compound have been the sites of exuberant weddings. Unlike the Maria Shriver-Arnold Schwarzenegger nuptials last April, this wedding was about as private as a Kennedy ceremony can probably be. For all the paparazzi attention that has been focused on her, Caroline, a law student at Columbia University, is actually reserved; unlike the Kennedy men, who tend to define themselves by action, Schlossberg, whom she met at a dinner party five years ago, is an intellectual and artist whose somewhat rarefied career defies...
Marriage of Maria Braun...
...Enlightenment of the 18th century, the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa appointed a troop of spies known as Commissioners of Chastity to enforce her prim views. Said the irrepressible Giacomo Casanova: "They carried off to prison, at all hours of the day and from all the streets of Vienna, poor girls whom they found alone, who in most cases went out only to earn an honest living." Sodomy was long considered a capital offense, and the Marquis de Sade was sentenced to death for engaging in it. Hitler threw homosexuals into concentration camps. In recent years the resurgence of Islamic...
...Hollywood movies, usually with scripts by Lerner, and the two created another nostalgic costume epic, Gigi (1958), directly for the screen. Their style of show eventually went out of fashion. Their songs never did: Thank Heaven for Little Girls, If Ever I Would Leave You, They Call the Wind Maria, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. After Loewe retired in 1960, Lerner collaborated with composers including Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein and Charles Strouse but never matched his achievements with Loewe...
...modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate each of the 24 tables at the reception and a couple of bazooka-like armaments that shot periodic showers of confetti and red feathers onto...