Word: rumores
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...Paris, and the Louvre quickly offered to buy it. But the Louvre's bid was topped by Art Dealer Georges Wildenstein, who had somehow managed to get wind of the deal. Wildenstein whisked the painting out of sight, and no one knows to this day whether the rumor is true that he got it for only...
...knew of his affair with the bad-tempered Queen, for it was the talk of Europe. And there was also the rumor that Godoy had already been secretly married to another of his mistresses, Dona Josefa Tudo, known in the streets as Pepita, the flirtatious daughter of a penniless artillery officer. At public dinners Godoy scandalized even Madrid's jaded courtiers by forcing his wife to sit next to his mistress...
...occupants told of being dragged from their homes, beaten and searched for arms. Hundreds of whites camped in the embassies. Unruly bands of soldiers roamed the streets, leaderless and apparently aimless. At one point they all rushed off to the Léopoldville airport because they had heard a rumor that three planeloads of Russian paratroops had landed to take over the Republic of the Congo...
Will Steven Armstrong's setting has familiar virtues and is always a pleasure to see. His costumes are less successful. Most are satisfactory and one brilliant, but what is splendid for Rumor, the Presenter and Epilogue in the second part, is on the wrong track for too many others. He has too often costumed, not clothed, and--except for the fantastical Rumour--this just fails. Some of his soldiers wear heraldic outfits, which for some reason makes them look like figures out of Tenniel's illustrations for Alice. Glendower looks as if he might glow in the dark. Messengers arrive...
...ringed jail that the Red Chinese have made of Tibet, and no reporters are allowed in. Eleven months ago, a nine-man committee of the International Commission of Jurists began sifting through Red Chinese documents and broadcasts, intelligence reports and refugee interrogations in an effort to separate fact from rumor, discover what was really going on. Last week their report was in. The committee could not be charged with prejudice: eight of its nine members were from Asian or African countries of neutralist leanings...