Word: palmier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palmier days, when Bernard was a critic and early TV celebrity, he had put aside trust funds for his three children. They have gathered to sign over their inheritance in the presence of Bernard's second wife Mary (Jo Henderson), whose once adulterous love for "Daddy" has long since guttered out. The children accuse Bernard of omnivorous selfishness, of stunting and warping their personalities, throttling them with quotations and flaying them with a rampant self-pity...
This was no White House punch-and-go reception, no pneumatic-chicken campaign dinner. To honor Betty and Gerald Ford on their 32nd anniversary, some friends in Palm Springs sprang for something palmier. There was a formal dinner for 320, dancing and additional entertainment from a few talented guests: Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Diller, Pearl Bailey and Tony Orlando (who tied yet another ribbon round that old oaken tune). "This is an exceptional night, a tremendous evening in the lives of Jerry and Betty Ford," said the former President and incumbent romantic. "We are more in love today than...