Word: nobleman
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...fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg. SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia, to 15 years in a maximum security prison...
...titles of their RKO movies changed - "Flying Down to Rio," "The Gay Divorc?e," "Top Hat," "Roberta," "Follow the Fleet," "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats...
...Taliban are falling behind the battlefield advances. With the death last month of prominent Pashtun war commander Abdul Haq--who was betrayed and executed by the Taliban while trying to recruit tribal elders for a revolt--U.S. hopes are pinned on Hamad Karzai, a pro-Western Pashtun nobleman who is in southern Afghanistan, urging tribal elders to back exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah...
...visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin--O.K., we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke--and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...
...visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin - OK, we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke - and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...