Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husky U.S. Army officer dressed in civilian clothes headed down the staid Boulevard Emile-Augier on his way to work at the U.S. embassy in Paris. Quietly, a man with a dark complexion and frizzy hair began to follow him. Before Lieut. Colonel Charles Robert Ray, 43, could reach his metallic blue Chevrolet with diplomatic plates, he was killed by a single shot that struck him in the back of the neck. The killer, who was glimpsed by several witnesses, ran down the quiet avenue and disappeared into a crowd of commuters...
William Holden, 63, whose rugged good looks and raspy baritone graced more than 50 films, including Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Network. He won an Oscar in 1953 for his hard-bitten prisoner of war in Stalag...
Henze does not drive a Rolls-Royce, but he is no stranger to capitalist success. The premiere in 1952 of his first major opera, Boulevard Solitude, brought him widespread attention. By age 40 he had recorded all five of his symphonies-he has since written a sixth-with the redoubtable Berlin Philharmonic. His opera The Bassarids was given a triumphant first production in 1966 at that bastion of conservatism, the Salzburg Festival; another opera, We Come to the River, was premiered by London's Royal Opera ten years later. Commissions are plentiful, and Henze is active as a conductor...
...home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their slow dance in Picnic (1956) remains an electrifying expression of romantic passion. In the '60s, Holden found refuge in the wilds of Kenya, where he supported conservation causes...
...hope the businessmen show grace in this situation, so that when next October they ask the community's leave to block off a street it too can show grace--and close down a boulevard named for our late president...