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...think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...
Spreading a blush over the pastel patina of Palm Beach, Fla., the titillating divorce-court battle between Newspaper Heir Peter Pulitzer, 52, and his estranged wife Roxanne, 31, drew to an end last week. Pulitzer, accused of having an incestuous relationship with his 26-year-old daughter, counterpunched with testimony from a family retainer suggesting that Roxanne had had a lesbian affair with Jacqueline Kimberly, 32, the wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, 76. Steve Anderson, a crewman on the Pulitzers' 75-ft. yacht, stated that he had once spotted four female legs protruding from...
...French or English; clad in olive drab fatigues, they play classical pieces on a Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie is a suave French-speaking member of the Christian aristocracy whose hypocrisy glares through a greasy patina of European culture. The journalists talk among themselves in a glib polyglot babble that reduces their different Western nationalities into a single category as undefined and unarticulated as the Western idea of "the Middle East...
...expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same time, the great mass of Egyptians are struggling with overcrowding, a breakdown of critical services and lack...
...become disembodied; eerily-lit heads swathed in darkness. The carefully sculptured garden becomes a foreboding place, a jungle, at dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many horror tales, the Haunting of M revolves around a headstrong heroine and a vengeful ghost...