Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midsummer Night's Dream, the sadomasochistic improvisations, Paul is dedicated to the pursuit of money for his productions, and he is totally unprincipled in his methods. It seems that he really does love Frances -- or so the improbable happy ending would indicate -- but let him spy a rich woman, and true love is quickly forgotten...
...less successful, the reason is that Frances is not quite clearly drawn. At one point we are told that she never blushes, but she already has, on an earlier page. There are in fact two Franceses, and only one of them blushes. The other one, spunky and with a rich sense of irony, is too smart to fall for a one-man traveling circus like Paul Treat. But comedy is a tough taskmaster, and it seems that Arensberg, like her heroine, settles for a prayer to St. Francis de Sales, who protects editors...
...after retiring, Loretta Young is returning to the limelight with the same graciousness that marked the opening sequence of her acclaimed television series, The Loretta Young Show. She is on location in Canada to film Christmas Eve, an NBC-TV movie scheduled to air in December, about an eccentric rich woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to reunite her family for Christmas. What finally brought Young back to the camera at age 73? "Maybe I was getting bored," she suggests, adding, "This is the kind of story I used to do on The Loretta Young Show. I love the character...
Category: games created by the rich and famous. Question: What do the makers of Trivial Pursuit offer as a follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world...
...that standard, a Gigli dress is positively brawny. Wearing one is like being brushed by cobwebs. His fashion has an urbane modernity that stands in stark contrast to the antiquity that enveloped him as he was growing up. Born in the soil-rich region of Romagna, Gigli was "surrounded by books" as a boy. His father and grandfather were antiquarian booksellers, and, the designer remembers, "We always lived in houses full of antique furniture and paintings -- beautiful but uncomfortable." His Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that...