Word: amours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth Arden Graham, whose horse trainer was suspended last November for ephedrinizing a horse, professed to have little interest in winning the Kentucky Derby next month. "I am more interested," declared the tack-sharp cosmetiqueen, "in the sales showing of my new perfume, Amour D'Ephedrine...
...caress, same revelation. But . . . never the same woman. The cards said I will meet her, but without recognizing her. Loving love ... 150 castles where we were going to love were not enough for me. I will have 100,000 more built tomorrow. (Woman's voice. gradually fading : Mon amour, mon amour, mon amour, mon amour...
With a tremendous subject to work on, "The Life and Loves of Beethoven" could be a great deal better. Although it achieves full realization of the horror of a great composer going deaf, its over-done dramatics of a death scream, and conflicts d'amour cause what could be a film classic to fall for short of its objective...
...pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour, a tangle of plausible roses, lilies, pansies, baby's breath and almost edible cupids. Another notable prizewinner: Grappling the Lost Anchor, by famed Illustrator Harrison ("Peter Rabbit") Cady. Net impression on most visitors: more of the same...
Passion Is Essential. He began by collecting ancient manuscripts and ancient instruments: a pardessus de viole (high-pitched, five-stringed viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...