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...when it was turned into a military hospital during World War I. History repeated itself during World War II, but the hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory for Winter Olympics athletes in 1956, and prominent guests returned in droves. Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov visited with his butterfly net as his constant companion, to the amusement of fellow residents. When Frank Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray...
...when it was turned into a military hospital during World War I. History repeated itself during World War II, but the hotel rebounded both times. It re-established its place in the winter sun as a dormitory for Winter Olympics athletes in 1956, and prominent guests returned in droves. Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov visited with his butterfly net as his constant companion, to the amusement of fellow residents. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist...
...throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and lent her increasing heft to The Poseidon Adventure. But her ripest later role was as herself: a tell-all memoirist and rowdy talk-show guest who was still entertaining audiences by exasperating men. DIED...
...somewhat chagrined - that they'll never be the shapeliest beauties in the room, classic Balasko characters waste no time trying to seduce with verbal niceties or polite formalities. Adapting that approach to a more wounded and vulnerable persona, Berry first created a stir as the plain, plump, unfairly named Lolita in Look At Me, who tries desperately to win affection in a world dominated by a famous, self-obsessed father. She followed up with another impressive portrayal as the teenage double-bass virtuoso and aspiring jazz musician Hannah, whose sweet struggles with sexist bandmates, a stiflingly affectionate Jewish family...
...tennis co-captains Elsa O’Riain and Melissa Anderson advanced to the quarterfinals in the doubles draw of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships on Thursday at the Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Harvard’s leading duo defeated Boglarka Berecz and Lolita Frangulyan of Florida 9-7, advancing to an elite eight showdown on Friday with the number one-seeded pair in the tournament, Georgia’s Shadisha Robinson and Caroline Basu. O’Riain and Anderson will attempt to become the first Harvard team to capture the doubles title...