Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also First Lady of Fashion. Despite her desires, stylists study her every purchase. While she was off in Canada, fashion circles bubbled with rumors that Jackie was smuggling Paris creations into the White House, thus snubbing her official designer, Oleg Cassini, who in turn spanked Jackie by giving his sister-in-law a gown copied from one he had created for the First Lady. When Jackie admitted that she had indeed bought a Givenchy dress, U.S. couturiers paled, saw visions of her shopping at foreign salons while in Paris this week, warned that Manhattan's Seventh Avenue might turn...
...Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances (not as her Biblical namesake but as Delilah of the "soft, yielding flesh and evil painted face"), give Preacher Hamilton the torments. Finally, Sister Mercedes, who cannot help noticing, has a conniption...
Spouting Matthew 5:28 ("Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart") and calling Salome "devil, slut, harlot," she tries tempting George herself and beckons him to "go through the holy fire" with her. George not only spurns Sister Mercy, he whops her good...
...movie The Quiet Man. However good-humored, it has a great deal about it of the mixture as before-even of its own Act I in Act II. A prizefighter from Pittsburgh (Art Lund) refuses to put up his fists in clashing with a sneering Innesfree bully over his sister's hand, wins the girl (Joan Pagan) through the cunning of a match maker (Eddie Foy), and at length wins over the brother-in-law in a stage-wide slugfest and floor-roll...
Eventually he was taken captive by the nations allied against France, and imprisoned at Olmütz in Austria. Now began Adrienne's real struggle. The revolutionary regime confiscated most of the family property; her sister, mother and grandmother died under the guillotine. Adrienne herself was saved only by the intervention of U.S. Minister Gouverneur Morris, who warned that her death would anger the U.S. With the help of a later U.S. envoy, James Monroe, Adrienne was finally released from her French prison and promptly set out to join her husband in his Austrian one. She collected...