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...inaccessibility would not have surprised a fan-mail-writing friend who never missed her Vienna appearances-Sigmund Freud. Yvette's wastrel father deserted the family when she was 13, and she vowed to marry only a man who would "cater to my every caprice," and that's the sort of self-effacing servitor she finally...
...purse 30%, to a paltry $20 million a year. Cautiously progressive, Feisal also earmarked $500 million for schools, hospitals, roads and water projects. He promised to introduce movies next year, ordered the building of two TV stations and allowed female announcers on the air. As usual, Saud and his wastrel sons conspired with outraged Moslem mullahs who opposed such frivolities and protested that an educated woman is a defiled woman...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this cheeky, stylish, often mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, an aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) teaches a lowly British clerk (Alan Bates) how to attain Establishment status...
Bates begins as a lowly clerk in an upper-U firm of London property agents. En route to a partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like...
...Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon is gnarled, grouchy, and filled with angry energy. When he complains into House microphones about the wastrel ways of Government, the New Frontiersmen get worried-with good reason...