Word: iv
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Give me a horse!" -SHAKESPEARE, Richard III (Act IV, Scene...
Richard Burton told David Frost on TV that his worst moment as an actor was a long-ago scene as Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV. After some lusty drinking and a prolonged period onstage, Burton wet his chain mail. He then played a duel scene with Sir Michael Redgrave, as Hotspur, and broke his sword. Forced to win the duel without a blade, he hoisted the bulky knight to his shoulder and tossed him across the stage. "Dear boy," said Sir Michael backstage, "I thought you were sweating rather more than usual...
...hate to see them get too long," said Adlai Stevenson III. "Generally, I am happier when they are short," pronounced John D. Rockefeller IV. Sideburns? Speeches? Novels? Contempt sentences? What the two young politicians were discussing was hemlines. The subject heated up as a result of Mme. Georges Pompidou's triumphant American tour with those calf-clutching Longuettes from Paris. In women's eyes, at least, Mme. Pompidou just may have tipped the scales in the year's mini-midi-maxi skirmish. In the front line of the battle, Los Angeles-based James Galanos became the first...
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...bull." So did Roger's attorney, Genevieve Aiche, 27, a pretty redhead. "Permit me to be skeptical," she said. "Eighteen assaults in one hour, even perpetrated by two men in relay, seem to me to be pure myth. It would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous, and they were Kings of France. After all, where is the woman who, after 18 assaults, would have the effrontery to complain...