Word: veronika
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...geometry of the relationship is a familiar triangle. A young man, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is involved with two women: a nurse named Veronika (Francoise Lebrun), who titillates him with stories of her rampant promiscuity, and an older woman, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), with whom Alexandre shares an apartment. Alexandre has a kind of glib charm. He is garrulous, eccentric, at ease with his chronic unemployment, and exhilarated by the way in which he can play off his women against each other. For themselves, the women accept his rules and compete for Alexandre with a sort of sidelong intensity...
...Nixon look in American foreign policy is basically responsible. Sensing a trend, a pretty young thing called Veronika Yhap put aside her work as a hospital planner and became a Dragon Lady-one of four, in fact, who banded together under that name to import Chinese-manufactured clothing and handicraft. Born in Shanghai but educated in the U.S., Veronika found a host of potential buyers around Manhattan shops after she showed clothes from her own wardrobe. "The response was fantastic." she says, "and we were in business before we knew...
...competent, and some are first-rate. Lupe Serrano was a dazzling, feather-light prima ballerina in the "Black Swan" pas de deux, Sallie Wilson was a dreamy and hungry psyche trapped in Sargasso's sea of weeds, Toni Lander's split leaps in Etudes were electric, and Veronika Mlakar in Giselle made a Queen of the Willis of intense malevolence. Royes Fernandez is the company's able, and sometimes distinguished premier danseur, and young Bruce Marks has the extra ebullience that sets off a star from the corps...
...house in a bleak suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is heavily shuttered, its garden stifled by weeds. But it is home to Veronika Eichmann, widow of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann. Last week, just a year after her husband's death, home she came with son Hassi, 7, from an unnamed hiding place in Western Germany. Barricaded once more behind the white-painted walls, Frau Eichmann and family (her son Dieter, his wife and child) remain in isolation, screaming at intruders, "Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?" Their nearest neighbors merely shrug. "Eichmann built them a prison...
...Israeli Supreme Court and to President Izhak Ben-Zvi will postpone the almost certain execution for several months. Until then, Eichmann will be held in a special cell on the top floor of the British-built Teggart Fortress in Ramleh. Meanwhile, a British reporter had sought out Mrs. Veronika Eichmann, now living in seclusion in Germany. Affirming her husband's innocence, Mrs. Eichmann was "absolutely sure" he would return home. Then, almost as an afterthought, she added: "We never discussed his work...