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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currently, Gilbert is combating illness, old age and dwindling celebrity in a Mediterranean villa that is decorated like an elaborate set from The Roaring Twenties. Soon after King's arrival, life begins to imitate artifice. There are decadent aristocrats, a mysterious mistress (Nadia Cassini), a vulturous ex-wife (Lizabeth Scott), and a professor from Berkeley (Al Lettieri) found dead in a bathtub-just like Diabolique-who pops up later as an assassin. And of course there are also the requisite bizarre coincidences, intimations of labyrinthine intrigues, and murders. It is all highly improbable, like one of Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PULP: Hack for Hire | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. A year later he went to New York for piano studies with Edith Oppens, later won first prize for a solo organ piece in the Nice International Composition Competition, an M.A. in composition from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University. Still, it was his gifts as a performer that earned him a Columbia Records contract in 1967 and dazzled the New York critics at a recital in 1971 (wrote the Times: "A keyboard technician of staggering facility, on the scale of Horowitz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip Harpsichordist | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

Belly Dancer Nadia Parsa was doing her peristaltic stuff at a press party in Teheran when in walked Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger with Iranian Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Siseo. Her kohl-rimmed eyes gleaming, Nadia undulated over to the tables where the VIPS were sitting. Then, while Iranian plainclothesmen efficiently stymied the photographers, she nestled herself on Kissinger's lap for three minutes or so. "A delightful girl," said Henry the K later, "very interested in foreign policy." What had they talked about? Answered Kissinger, with a straight face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1972 | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...into the villages. It is perhaps the sorest point with local residents, who say that the refugees will work for one rupee (130) a day when the local rate is between 21 and three rupees. Farm laborers, shop assistants and other workers recently demonstrated in the farming district of Nadia, asking local employers not to hire refugees. Residents also complain that the price of kerosene, vegetables and other foods has nearly doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Not If, But When | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Russian tradition. The son of famed St. Petersburg Basso Feodor Stravinsky, he was raised in an aristocratic and intellectual atmosphere and became a favored pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. His first durable score, the orchestral fantasy Fireworks, was written in 1908 as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter Nadia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rightness of His Wrongs | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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