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...glow of an imp. It is doubtful that the boys in Viet Nam regard her as their favorite pinup. She does have more sex appeal than, say, ZaSu Pitts, but it is also obvious that a Liz Taylor she's not. If there is an animal splendor about her, it is more pussycat than panther. Her curves do not pop the eyes. Her legs are a little too lean and a mite long (she is 5 ft. 7 in.). Her jaw is on the prognathous side. Her feet are a little less than dainty (size 8); when she played...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...heart of the man. Rousseau's own resolution was to "put his life to the test of truth," and he did it by recording in Confessions every real and fancied failure, every agonizing triumph, every abrasive sand grain of guilt. He himself was in no doubt about the splendor and uniqueness of his autobiography. "It is without precedent," he boasted, "and will find no imitator -the only existing portrait of a man drawn from life and in all truthfulness, and probably the only one there ever will...
...such ever come to light-could not be more remote from the modern world than the bizarre and ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...