Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe" upper class education back at home. Meanwhile, where was Rambo while America was losing the war in Vietnam? Stallone, according to Jack Newfield, "ducked the draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting at the University of Miami. On his acting days at Miami, Stallone reflects: "I learned it was possible to function without brain waves for two years." Then as U.S. fortunes sagged in Vietnam, Stallone in the early 1970s worked on producing soft core porn...
Stallone recently chatted with New York Daily News columnist Pete Hamill about his lifestyle in Switzerland while 58,000 Americans were being sent to their graves in Southeast Asia...
Then I went to school in Switzerland. I got there because my mother was a great conartist...This was a school for extremely wealthy and professionally spoiled children...I just wanted to get loaded and play pinball machines. Essentially I was the imported American sheep dog for these little lambs, these girls. I mean it...It was my job to chase guys away and yell profanities, like "I'll get your mother for this!" and crap like that. Until I realized that it was more profitable the other way. I mean one of the girls would say, "Listen...
...artifacts who had emigrated from Iran to the U.S., owned some 100 of Faberge's plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride a horse...
...decade Strindberg lived in exile (Paris, Berlin, Switzerland), and all his life he lived as a kind of pilgrim, tracking down every cracked new theory, pursuing every wild whim in the desperate hope that it might lead to the Truth. As an early modern, caught in the whirlwind and helping to agitate it, he understood that he inhabited "an age of transition"--at one moment "split and vacillating," at the next moment "urgently hysterical...