Word: nina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coward of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and I'll Follow My Secret Heart. These songs seem always to have existed, yet their sentiments are fresh as first love. The show also contains less familiar Coward, like Nina, a balky girl from Argentina who absolutely refused to "begin the beguine," and cursed people who "besought her to./ She cursed Cole Porter too." In A Bar on the Piccola Marina we meet the playful widow, Mrs. Wentworth Brewster, who was delighted when some young Italian sailors goosed...
...these years Bing and his Russian wife Nina, a former ballerina, have lived in the Essex House on fashionable Central Park South. Although, he says, "I did not live in New York really; I lived at the opera house. Sunday, when the house was dark, I usually stayed in bed." Now 70 and still a British subject (knighted by the Queen in 1970), he plans to stay on in New York for the time being as "Distinguished Professor" at Brooklyn College (salary: $36,275; at the Met he earned $100,000), giving two courses in opera management. At the last...
...extracted from his publishers. He and his collaborator Richard Suskind originally planned nothing more wicked than "a gorgeous literary caper." As the plot deepened, he saw it as "a venture into the unknown, a testing of myself." His wife Edith approved, he recalls, and so did his mistress Nina van Pallandt. "You're quite, quite mad," Nina said to Irving when he told her of the project in their Mexican hotel bedroom, "but the world is mad, so what's the bloody difference? And I love...
...heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been both...
That batch of back-courtroom gossip followed a story by the National Observer's Nina Totenberg reporting that the court had had its first racial incident. Justice Marshall had asked for a rescheduling of a judicial conference so that he could attend the funeral of a relative. When Chief Justice Burger found that the new date would conflict with the funeral of former Justice James Byrnes, which he felt a duty to attend, the conference was switched back to the original date. No one told Marshall about the change; the conference was held, and cases were debated and decided...