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Divorced. By Natalie (Gypsy) Wood, 23, Hollywood's latest up-and-atom bombshell: Tintype Cinemactor Robert Wagner, 32; on grounds of mental cruelty (Nat's mother witnessed: "He was even rude to me''); after four years of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds-noirs to their homes." About the only group to escape the widespread condemnation are young pied-noir girls, because 1) they are uncommonly good-looking; 2) being women, they are appreciably less crude and rude than the refugee men; and 3) the wartime climate of Algeria has made them eager for amour...
...would be rude and stupid to ask meanings of this beautiful structure; the play's words and themes do not from a logical unit, and its point is beyond words. The point is simply the climax of motion and artifice, the Queen's dance...
...upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show" trophy for its tropical rain-forest garden-a miasma of brackish water beneath a Dorothy Lamour-type waterfall bordered by orchids, palms, creeping vines, and a rude-looking plant called Amorphophalliis titannm, which stood 8 ft. high. The Amorphophalliis produces a single 3-ft. blossom resembling a chocolate-covered jack-in-the-pulpit ("the largest flower in the world") once in twelve to 20 years, then dies from the enormity of the act. Such exoticism...
...Browning, Lowell relies on energy, intelligence, originality, erudition. His best poems read like vigorous, carefully patterned prose. They are more vivid than sensitive; Lowell looks out at the world more often than he looks in on himself. The sonnet, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, conveys the rude vigor of the late-Lowell style...