Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
Durable (fifty-fivish) Cinemactor Gary (An Affair to Remember) Grant, now separated from third wife Betsy, was living it up at the grand finale of the Cannes Film Festival. He had discovered a new diversion: Cinemactress Kim (Picnic...
From Rio de Janeiro, where he is living in modest circumstances but lionized by Brazilian intellectuals, Delgado told a TIME correspondent: "It was a small affair, but it frightened the Salazar government to death. I suppose they intended to take over some key points, call on me to abolish the dictatorship. Salazar's Gestapo caught on "to plans because too many people were involved-40 or 50. You Americans don't understand the situation in Portugal. It's a police state under very tight control...
...chosen recently and enigmatically to become anonymous, has presented Fogg with the loan of several Cezannes, including one of the late Mont Saint-Victoires. Coincidentally, the museum is host to a number of later French canvasses featuring Picasso, also anonymously offered. The resultant exhibition, then, is a fortuitous affair and a particularly happy one. It makes for many good paintings and a few tangential observations...
That night the troops assemble on a bluff for a "chickie run." Jim doesn't see the point of the affair, but Buzzy reassures him. ("You gotta' do somethin', don't you?") Jim loses the race, but Buzzy loses a lot more when he can't get the door of his car open before it rolls over the cliff. Except for his loyal followers who decide to wreak revenge upon Jim, not too many are deeply disturbed by Buzzy's demise...