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...Lesser ladies may slide past their 40th birthdays with nothing but a private sob or two to mark the occasion. Not Elizabeth Taylor. In Budapest, where Husband Richard Burton is making a movie called Bluebeard, the beautiful 40-year-old invited some 200 friends in from all over the world for a couple of days of drinking and dancing and laughing and looking at the birthday girl and her jewels. The lat est Elizabethan dazzler was a present from Burton: the flat, heart-shaped diamond given by 17th century Indian Shah Jahan to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal -for whom...
...crucial roles of the Godfather's sons, such glamorous candidates as Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson were ruled out in favor of lesser-known actors with a tougher, more authentic look: Al Pacino as Michael, the Ivy-educated son who succeeds the Godfather; James Caan as the lusty Sonny, the oldest son whose hot temper betrays him; Robert Duvall as the adopted son Tom Hagen, the lawyer who be comes the family's consigliere; John Cazale as Fredo, the timid, feckless son who is given a Las Vegas casino to play with. For the role...
Secondly, I stated that students graduating from undergraduate institutions smaller and less well-known than Harvard (not students applying to lesser known graduate schools) are likely to be judged to a greater degree on the basis of GRE scores. This results simply from the fact that the undergraduate curriculs and faculty recommendors at these schools may be less familiar to graduate departments, a situation which may cause graduate admissions committees to rely more heavily upon GRE results. Ann Bennett Spence Assistant Director Office for Graduate and Career Plans
...getting much in return. By making such a show of praising his hosts, he cast himself in the role of a suppliant. By appearing to be granted an interview with Mao Tse-tung rather than getting one as a matter of course, he seemed to accept a status lesser than that of the chairman...
...winner still, the four keep up their front all the way to the welfare-check line. Author Ralph Maloney's point is obvious but rather profoundly true: the one unforgivable crime is to be broke. To escape this ultimate guilt, the bankrupts band to gether to commit a lesser crime: hold up a bank...