Word: baccarat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of the U.S. stage, pure English makes an irresistible lover for an audience. Equally indispensable is an actress who can do no wrong from first entrance to final curtain. Margaret Leighton's eyes are wounds of inner pain, her hair is a glimmering tiara, her voice is Baccarat crystal. She could carry a continent, let alone a play...
...marinates impressions, characters, experiences. Iguana emerged from a 1940 trip to Acapulco. By 1946, it was a short story. By 1959, it was a one-act play, produced at a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. Four separate versions followed, and to compare them is to watch sand turning into Baccarat crystal. Says Williams: "It takes five or six years to use something out of life. It's lurking in the unconscious- it finds its meaning there." Essentially, Williams has been chosen by his subjects...
...variant of baccarat, chemin de jer (literal meaning: railroad) is limited to two players, who alternate as banker. Each gets dealt two cards and may draw a third, with the aim of getting a count of nine or as close to it as possible. Tens and picture cards count zero...
...Frederick Henry Prince lacked an heir: his younger son had been killed flying in World War I and his older son preferred the life of a gentleman farmer to business. Prince took a fatherly interest in bright young Cousin Billy, taught him how to play hard at polo and baccarat, counseled him in high finance while Billy loafed through literature courses at Princeton ('36). During World War II, when Artillery Captain Billy Wood was on New Caledonia, Cousin Fred wrote and offered to adopt him and eventually to give him a controlling voice in the Prince trust, now worth...