Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepting anomalies. Recognizing that poverty always has its claims on the rich, the U.S. could observe, in Latin America and the Middle East, that poor nations often had some mighty extravagant spenders among them. Italy had its 2,000,000 unemployed -and its rich who escape honest taxation. Wealthy Actress Gina Lollobrigida made the headlines last week by reporting a taxable income of only $18,583 for 1957, but she was only the prettiest rather than the most flagrant practitioner of a well-established Italian habit...
Strijdom leaves his gifted pianist widow and a son and daughter. An earlier marriage to Actress Marda Vanne broke up after a year, is rarely mentioned by his Nationalist followers, among whom divorce is shameful. At his death, Strijdom had not cut all ties with Britain (there are economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice...
...undershirt on in It Happened One Night. It just about ruined the underwear business. We could do the same thing. There's Gary Grant, see, smoking a cigarette. He coughs, and somebody says, 'I told you to stop smoking.' Or we could have a very young actress look down at the breakfast food and sneer, 'Do I have to? It's like eating the front lawn...
...every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey's summation of him seem just right, and somehow regrettable: "There are no men left in this bleak, awful, modern world like...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...