Word: ranier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally Mailer has her at her core of sexual power bigger than any man she ever meets. Her movement is towards bigger and bigger fantasy kingdoms, from DiMaggio to Miller to some magical state of Princessdom--she has been rumored to have been offered a chance at marrying Prince Ranier before Grace Kelly. At the end of the book Mailer's novelistic imagination won't quit and he tries to make connections between a brief friendship with Robert Kennedy and singing Happy Birthday to President John Kennedy four months before his death. Mailer may have carefully hedged and qualified here...
Throughout his 8'½ years as leader of the Christian Democrats in parliament, Ranier Barzel, 48, had to fend off steady criticism from both his Social Democratic Party foes and his colleagues within the alliance of the Christian Democratic Union and Bavaria's Christian Social Union. He has been assailed as an ambitious opportunist with an all too obvious thirst for power and condemned for his irritating, seemingly insincere political style. As one S.D.P. leader put it: "After every 5,000 words, he has to have his oil changed...