Word: riveting
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...groom, the happiest person at next week's Beverly Hills wedding may well be the fellow who controls the car-parking concession. Some 800 guests have been summoned to the lavish black-tie garden party to watch sometime Actress Marisa Berenson (Barry Lyndon), 29, hook up with Rivet Manufacturer James Randall, 32. The bride will don a gown by Valentino for the occasion, and she says that her attendants "will wear whatever they wish to wear." They will not, says Marisa, dress in shocking pink in memory of her late grandmother, Designer Elsa Schiaparelli...
...bustling around the courtroom and wrestling with charts; Bailey, 5 ft. 7¾ in., moving with the assured air of a man who is convinced he is going to win. If Browning tended to be didactic, Bailey was dynamic, using his deep, vibrant voice to rivet the jury's attention...
Hawkes gets his replicas from an English firm that obtained the churches' permission to make them. Brass-colored and authentic to the last rivet mark, they are impossible to differentiate from originals-many of which have been rubbed so smooth that they are now off limits to collectors. Indeed, an English couple visiting the Boston establishment were filled with indignation that their churches had allowed the original treasures to be pirated to America...
...Boat is an exciting adventure yarn, full of battle tension and long bouts of boredom on long patrols. But as a novel, its characters are considerably less alive than the technology that en cases them. Even at an incredible 900 rivet-popping feet beneath the Atlantic, there is the uneasy feeling of bobbing rudderless on the surface...
...will be very different for Henry Aaron when he ties and then breaks Ruth's record. At a time when sporting events, from true combat like the World Series to make-believe contests like the Riggs-King tennis match, rivet the nation's attention, Aaron's conquest is being built into a spectacle nonpareil. The Atlanta Braves management is already in such a tizzy over preparations that when one official was informed that Jerry Ford might be available to throw out the first ball at the team's opening home game next Monday night, he responded...