Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, a splendid debut. Farley's success had its Cinderella overtones as well. Reared in Moscow, Idaho, and the runner-up in the 1964 America Junior Miss Pageant, Farley, 30, has worked primarily in Europe for the past eight years. Though she already had 49 performances of Lulu to her credit, she was engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call...
...host presents a tarot pack, the set painted by Bonifacio Bembo for Milanese nobility in the 15th century. (The book includes eight color reproductions of the cards and a running marginal commentary of black-and-white illustrations.) Each guest seeks his story in the 78-card deck - an allegorical pageant of wands, coins, swords, clubs and human figures. As the cards are turned face up, some famous identities make their entrances...
...making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting the takeover attempt, and even asked the Justice Department to examine the antitrust implications of the whole affair. After a pageant of dramatic late-night board meetings and a spirited ballet of lawyers swirling into court, however, New York magazine finally got a new master?and America a new press lord...
Althea chronicles the divorce of Muldoon-Adam from Fantasy-Eve. A slow divorce--it spans the late 1950s through 1973. It's a long book that moves as slowly and richly as a pageant, sometimes presenting vivid tableaus such as Muldoon's chance meeting with Norma after years apart--he no longer recognizes the dope-smoking, guerilla-garbed literary lioness Norma has become...
Since it was launched in 1973 by Reporter-turned-Lawyer Michael R. Levy, 30, Texas Monthly has taken on just about every sacred steer in the Lone Star State: college football, the Miss Texas Pageant, oil barons, the Texas Rangers, Dallas banks. TM's exposure of a backwoods speed trap near San Antonio that collected fines of $168,000 a year led to suits by the county and a nearby town. No Texas legislator on TM's biennial "ten best" list has ever been defeated, while 40% of those listed among the "ten worst" are out of office...