Word: suitoring
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...beats his grand amour Althea a few times; nonetheless, she keeps her eyes lifted in the same direction as Stavros: wealthward. In a hilarious set piece, she accepts the highest-bidding suitor and heads for the altar with Fernand's son. But at the last moment, Althea refuses to sign a marriage contract that provides $200,000 for her odious mother and nothing for herself. While her fiance rushes off to get drunk, the bride-to-be makes love to Stavros in her wedding gown and precipitates an unforgettable four-wall fray for all. Yet all's wealthy...
...tough time finding a place for his presidential papers. Duke University abandoned plans for a Richard M. Nixon Library, and so did the city of Independence, Mo. Now a town in Kansas is bidding for the library, but Nixon may find the offer a bit confining. Reason: the eager suitor is Leavenworth, home to a maximum-security federal penitentiary and three other prisons...
...carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...
...watch. Everything stops. "We laugh nervously as we wonder where the plot is taking us--and we discover the answer is nowhere. The world around Harold Ryan deteriorates as his wife, son, and friends leave him and he is left weaponless without his mind for his final battle with suitor Woodly. We watch Ryan struggle to salvage his own faith in himself. But, like Ryan, at the play's end, we've been brought from nowhere to nowhere...
...tapes depict Hinckley as a persistent and pathetic suitor. As he tells Foster in the first call, by way of introduction: "This is the person that's been leaving notes in your mail box for two days." At one point during the conversations, Foster's freshmen roommates giggled in the background. "They're laughing at you," she said to Hinckley, and to the girls in an aside: "I should tell him I am sitting here with a knife." Hinckley heard the remark. "Well," he assured her, "I'm not dangerous, I promise you that...