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Children love him because his daffy repertoire of Ork language can be mimicked endlessly. Already Mork's "nano, nano" (translation: hello) has replaced the Fonz's "aaaayyy" as the catchword of the nation's kids. Adults like his spontaneous riffs. On one program he launched into a singsong: "Shah, Shah, Ayatollah [I tol' yuh], Shah, Shah, Ayatollah...
...classic conceit used by many television shows, including Bewitched, My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie. But Williams' pastiche of mime, light-speed improvisation and complex clowning is giving that one-joke vehicle a new velocity. Delivered with his engagingly boyish grin and calculated inflections, such gibberish as "nano, nano" (meaning hello) and "nimnul" (meaning jerk) can send audiences?and producers?into paroxysms of delight: last week the show shot up to seventh place in the Nielsens. "This guy is going to be a superstar with or without this series," observes Dale McCraven, the co-creator of Mork & Mindy...
Jonsine took his bride off to Brazil, there drudged over his coffee estate while his wife pined for Biarritz's less boring round. Nano renewed his suit and the situation grew tense. Twice Monique went home. The first time, husband Jonsine pursued her, persuaded her to come back to Brazil, have a baby and be happy. They had a baby girl, Pamela, but Monique was still not happy. The second time she ran off, Jonsine followed again; this time he promised to stay with her in France...
...Distraught. But Nano, too, popped up in Biarritz, and spent much time with Monique. She became distraught, required larger & larger doses of sleeping pills. Last October she made a decision. She told Jonsine she would leave him for Nano...
Next day the crisis ripened. Jonsine and Monique went to Mass together, then dropped into Sonny's Bar for tomato juice, then lunched at the rambling Villa Fazenda. Monique wrote a letter to Nano telling him she had finally broken with Jonsine. Six hours before it was postmarked, she was dead...