Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christine has survived the years, two marriages, and a string of financed flings--and to Anthony appears the same. In the automatic magnetism and libidinous anarchy of the French, they become lovers. Only the shadow of Christine's "benefactor" darkens the happy idyll...
...carpet and smuggled his body away to be buried. But the Crown Prince, who had ruled the country for 14 years as Regent, and was widely disliked, was another matter. His assassins threw his body out a window, let the mobs drag him through the streets and string his body up in public. Then the plotters began systematically rounding up government ministers...
...Sonata for Flute, Oboe, 'Cello and Harpsichord (1952) by Elliot Carter '30. The Piano Sonata (1946) marked the beginning of Carter's complete technical mastery. The present Sonata, which won the Walter W. Naumburg Musical Foundation Award in 1956, was written between two highly controversial and monumental works, the String Quartet (1951) and the Variations for Orchestra...
Switch of String. Last month the idyllic arrangement came to an abrupt end. Iv Eng Seng fled from the embassy with her month-old baby boy to a London nursing home and complained that Sary had severely beaten her "for minor mistakes." Nonsense, replied Ambassador Sary gallantly: "I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip...
...sharp-eyed critics watching his performance, it was incredible that Actor Robert Preston Meservey should have spent a dozen years as a second-string Hollywood leading man. Bon of a French Huguenot and Irish line, Robert was two years old when his parents moved from Newton Highlands, Mass, to the going-to-seed Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. He grew up, among Italian and Mexican families, in a neighborhood dotted with rundown homes. But the Meserveys were a close-knit unit. Bob's mother fed her family on music, and as a small boy Bob learned to play...