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...Precious few incidents occur. Marianne, 30, decides that Bruno, her well-to do executive husband, will some day leave her, so she throws him out on the spot. Then she takes long walks through nearby woods, through an unnamed West German city and through the halls and rooms of her rented house. A friend asks her to join what seems to be a women's consciousness-raising group, but Marianne does not. She works at a translation of a French book about a woman trying to achieve independence; if there is a message here for Marianne, she does...
...rich Boston family-her brother is Lincoln Kirstein, a founder and patron of the New York City Ballet-had all the advantages of money and connections. Establishing herself in the Paris Ritz, she made it her job to befriend Proust's friends and to beg or borrow those precious letters...
Professor Emeritus Erik H. Erikson will nab one of the precious parchments. Abe Beame and John Havlicek have both declined the honor this time around...
...happy King and Alia had a prince and princess of their own and adopted a baby girl orphaned by an airplane crash. When Alia was killed returning from a flying tour to a Jordanian hospital, Hussein tearfully announced the death of "my precious companion." Before long, though, his name began to be linked with those of other women...
...often asked Prime Ministers from Winston onward, and especially Harold Wilson, what they felt about the constitutional monarchy. Wilson said: "The Queen is the most professional head of state in the world. My most precious day was my Tuesday audience with her. At first I thought it was going to be fun to see a pretty woman and talk to her. But, my God, she put me through it if I hadn't done my homework...