Word: wyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't have dreamed of honoring with my virility that woman with false eyelashes who smoked long cigarettes." In fact, not until he was promised a dowry of rifles, hatchets, knives and clothes did Obakharok, chief of a New Guinea headhunting tribe, agree to marry American Anthropologist Wyn Sargent last year. Sargent described her jungle adventures in the book My Life With the Headhunters, but this month Obakharok gave his own version of the tale in an interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok, it seems...
...culture-bound. It is, however, a tribute to his blithe showmanship that he put them over (along with such later high-minded successes as The Best Years of Our Lives and Porgy and Bess) at the same time that he was fabricating his own broad comic reputation. Sam Gold wyn was his own greatest production, and one can only be saddened that, at 91, death last week finally included...