Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fiancé Pat Nugent at a Good Friday service in San Antonio's Roman Catholic San Fernando Cathedral, later flew to the L.B.J. Ranch for a long Easter weekend. There they were joined by Daughter Lynda, looking as radiant as her father and sporting a jeweled gold ring on the third finger of her left hand. A gift from her current beau, Actor George Hamilton, who had also joined the family for the weekend, the ring, White House aides averred, stood for "friendship," not connubial intent...
...Daily Telegraph's Anthony Lejeune two weeks ago decried "aspects of the contemporary British scene which have not merely surprised the outside world but which increasingly provoke its contempt and derision. To call them symptoms of decadence may be facile as an explanation, but it has a disturbing ring of truth." Tradition-loving Londoners like to cite John Ruskin's eloquent description of 16th and 17th century Venice, another aging empire built on maritime power: "In the ingenuity of indulgence, in the varieties of vanity, Venice surpassed the cities of Christendom, as of old she had surpassed them...
...purpose arsenal. Nail files and umbrella handles are good for gouging, hairbrush handles, ball-point pens and rolled-up magazines for general jabbing at vital areas. Hatpins* are oldfashioned, but very useful: "If you hold it by the top you can make holes in people." High heels and key rings are excellent for leaving marks: "Hold the key ring in your palm, make the keys extend through your fingers and scratch. We won't have any trouble identifying...
...title role of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo with the New York City Opera this season. As Hippolyte, his lyric tenor projected warmly and well controlled, with little hollowness or break between registers. Unfortunately, he is no Bergonzi; Domingo's sound is marked by continual tightness and lack of real ring. Perhaps his singing on unfamiliar French vowels was part of the problem. His acting usually remained typically tenoristic; that is, non-existent. But Domingo's forthcoming reappearance (opposite Renata Tebaldi in the new Boheme) should provide a fairer indication of his talents, as he undertakes a truly substantial role...
Nathaniel Benchley novels all have a faintly spurious ring, like canned laughter or the new 25? piece. That is because Benchley's plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than...