Word: praslin
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...Invented during the Sun King's reign by the Marshal Duplessis Praslin's chef, pralines today are a specialty sweetmeat of Louisiana, the state named for Louis...
THIS POEM, WRITTEN by a Nicaraguan woman named Christian Santos de Praslin, recently appeared in a Managua newspaper. Its publication dramatizes the fact that revolution in Nicaragua, a country whose people have long been silent under the oppressive dictatorship of President Anastasio Somoza, is alive and flourishing. Freedom of the press is a relatively new development in this Central American nation of 2.5 million--opposition to the 42-year-old Somoza dynasty has only surfaced in print within the last year, in the wake of President Carter's proclamations about human rights...
...MURDER-William Rough-ead-Sheridan House ($2.75). Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...
...Lewis, Robinson and Litvak trimmed the script to 180 pages. Litvak, who understands the Davis temperament, suggested alterations which would change the heroine from "a woman in love to one with more subtle complicated emotions." But the biggest Litvak contribution was to bring Bette Davis and the Duke de Praslin (Charles Boyer) together as the Duke is dying-something Novelist Field had found unnecessary...
...Heaven Too seemed to have almost everything that could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic, lovable little son. It had such veteran...