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Word: borgia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because their motives and personalities are less obscured by distracting flamboyance, it is the women-the ones who loved the scoundrels-who emerge, almost subliminally, as the book's most understandable human beings. Lucrezia Borgia, unjustly slandered as a poisoner and profligate, seems much to be pitied -a woman who may have had a lover or two but who gave her third husband at least seven children before her death at 39. Only a few women railed at their fate. Beatrice d'Este Sforza, pregnant and angered at her husband's open infidelity with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scoundrels and Statistics | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m). Don Murray, Inger Stevens, Barry Nelson and Fritz Weaver are featured in The Borgia Stick (1967), the story of a crime syndicate's scheme to invade big business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 23, 1967 | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Don Murray and Inger Stevens are pawns of organized crime in The Borgia Slick. Another full-length movie getting its premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Feb. 24, 1967 | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

WORLD PREMIERE ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Yet an- other network-made movie, The Borgia Stick, starring Don Murray as a bank executive who becomes a front man for a crime syndicate that thoughtfully provides him with a front wife-Inger Stevens. Sunday, February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 3, 1967 | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...theater until a few minutes before curtain time. Then, "before 1 have time to think about it-pfft! I jump right in there." Last April, seemingly from out of nowhere, she jumped right in as a substitute to sing the lead in the American Opera Society's Lucrezia Borgia and pfft! She caused a sensation the likes of which Manhattan opera lovers have not witnessed since the arrival of Joan Sutherland four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Big Find | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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