Word: raven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would she marry again? Quoth raven-voiced Bette Davis: Nevermore. Back in Hollywood for a remake of Lady for a Day, the 53-year-old veteran of some 70 films and four husbands renounced star-crossed matrimony: "This business is timeconsuming, and there is the matter of making more money than your husband does. It's too bad. I like men, but I just can't stay married to them...
From some of Protestantism's younger leaders, Dr. Bonnell's thesis evoked a raven chorus of dissent. Commented San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The positive factors listed by Dr. Bonnell are valid, but as a group they don't add up to enough. They are happening, and without them we'd be further behind. But we are losing ground-we aren't even keeping up with population growth...
Social Security. Lucky's real target was another aging model, raven-haired Dorian Leigh, 41, the elder sister of Suzy Parker and the 1940s queen of New York high fashion. Last week Dorian sat behind the kidney-shaped, Victorian desk of her model company in London, kept an eye on a red phone for overseas calls, a black phone for clients, an olive phone for the models, and purred out her reply: "Twice a year, before the collections, Lucky mounts the same fatuous warhorse. And at a time when the French government and I are working together...
...taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection of parody published in the 1880s, which contained 86 versions of Gray's Elegy, 60 versions of Poe's The Raven, and 21 of The Charge of the Light Brigade. He has learned that the greatest are beyond parody: Shakespeare was himself a master parodist (of Nashe, Marlowe, Lyly), but no one ever capped that starry-pointing pyramid, though Shaw and Nigel Dennis have notably tried...
...corny," Dillman was still required to bless a menagerie ranging from dogs to ducks. And in the closing minutes of the film-shot in Rome on golden sand previously hallowed by Ben-Hur's chariot tracks -the director decided to foreshadow Francis' death by depicting a raven on a desolate limb. Explained a Curtiz assistant: "We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop. Some body shut a car door on the last one this morning and clipped off half his wing. He's through as an actor...