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...just like old times down South for onetime Playgirl Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder, now the wife of Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and proprietress of an Austrian resort hotel. On a recent safari to Italian Somaliland, it seems, Honeychile bought herself a slave girl. "I'm from Georgia, you know, in the Deep South, and we used to have slaves there," explained Honeychile. "The sweet little girl was only 16, and her father wanted to sell her to some old man. I just jumped into the affair and outbid the other buyer." But Honeychile still has one problem...
Bath Cubes by Guerlain. But the critics sound as if they might be kinder to Bond's non-U. penchant for drop-kicking the men and devil-dealing the ladies if he were not such a dandy among the consumer goods, a slave to "crude snob-cravings." The monocle glitters over the private-eyeful afforded by Agent Bond. He smokes Macedonian cigarettes marked with three gold rings. He drinks Dom Perignon champagne, drives a Bentley. At Blades, a posh St. James's Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been...
...Built by Danish slave traders in 1661, it became an official residence of the British Governor General, then Nkrumah...
Scrapping the Clichés. The Bolshoi's new extravaganza, with its 400 onstage musicians and dancers, tells the story of Rome's slave uprising as outlined by Sallust and Plutarch, ending in the betrayal and death of the slaves' leader, the gladiator Spartacus (a favorite historical character of Karl Marx). Composer Khachaturian, a Stalin Prizewinner, diplomatically finds the ballet apt "at a time when many peoples are fighting for liberation and colonial rule is crumbling...
...Renegade features a fanatical Christian missionary who goes out to convert a barbarous tribe dwelling in a dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...