Word: welched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most closely guarded secret was the composition of the royal party at the Royal Film Performance, an annual benefit glittering with stars and royals. This year it was announced that the Queen Mother, Princess Alexandra and her husband Angus Ogilvy would vie for attention with Michael York, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan and Geraldine Chaplin at the London premiere of The Three Musketeers. But on that night they were all upstaged by a commoner. Accorded an unprecedented honor and ranked No. 4 on the official program was Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, currently ranked No. 1 among Prince Charles' belles...
...presence or absence of content form this magazine is not even debatable. To attempt reading People for information is futile. To read it for entertainment is to define as pleasure an onanistic spasm at the dropping of somebody's name. Gerald Ford in a swimming pool and Raquel Welch in a purple blouse are not very stimulating. And so we reach the question of what the people at Time Inc. think they are offering, and why the people who buy the magazine think it is worth having...
...court of public opinion. At long last he has a lawyer who?unlike his previous counsel?is a seasoned courtroom attorney. Moreover, St. Clair's Washington experience (see box page 12) goes back to the classic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, when he was an assistant to Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel. A poised and suave performer, he has brought an aura of aggressive confidence to Nixon's defense campaign. "Jim has been a bonanza for us," observes Alexander Haig, Nixon's overworked chief of staff. Haig describes St. Clair as a man who has "considerable acumen...
...registered Republican, St. Clair has represented clients of widely varying political and philosophical points of view. Soon after the cranberry case, he became a primary assistant to his senior partner, Joseph N. Welch, in the famous Army-McCarthy hearings; Welch, as counsel for the Army, engaged in some historic televised clashes with Joseph R. McCarthy that helped sink the Wisconsin Senator's career. More recently, St. Clair won a pioneering case in 1967 upholding the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that categorizes marijuana as a narcotic drug and thus outlaws its possession and sale. A year later he successfully...
...musketeers-Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay and Michael York as D'Artagnan-all perform admirably. When the casting threatens to become too capricious (Raquel Welch as the Queen's confidante, Faye Dunaway as the archvillainess, Charlton Heston as Richelieu), Lester exploits the absurdity. He made the discovery, for example, that Welch and Dunaway, for all their physical dissimilarity, are basically the same actress. So a climactic brawl between them is funny not just for itself but because of the two people playing them...