Word: balmier
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...this entry, Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau has never been balmier, and Dyan Cannon gives new blouse to the word blowsy as a sharpshooting businessman's castoff mistress. The movie has more plot than Birth of a Nation, and there is no sign anywhere (save during the credits) of a panther; but those who have battered their thought processes through four previous PPs could care less: they just want more, if possible without paraquat...
...paintings and sculptures. But he soon changed his mind. Few friends dropped by as they did on the Riviera, and it was too far from the sea to enable him to take an occasional swim. Finally, in 1961, Picasso decided to move to Notre-Dame-de-Vie and the balmier climate of the Riviera back country. There he kept up his prodigious pace, filling one room after another with paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, sculptures-and building on to the house when necessary...
MacNeice is dead now, and Auden, an immeasurably more talented poet, has become a happier, wiser traveler, with a preference for balmier summer spots-the island of Ischia near Naples, for instance, and the civilized hills of Austria. But in Letters from Iceland, the two precocious patriarchs of an Oxford poetic school spoke with the same youthful, irreverent voice. The book is probably the only successful verse partnership since the old English firm of Beaumont & Fletcher closed shop. It is, moreover, an object lesson for all dull dogs who could find nothing more exciting in a place like Iceland than...
Good Shot. The advent of balmier times was epitomized a fortnight ago, when Shriver was a guest at De Gaulle's semiannual pheasant shoot at the presidential chateau in Rambouillet, an hour from Paris. Shriver downed two birds in a row as the general watched closely from behind. Each time, De Gaulle exclaimed: "Good shot!" Shriver missed once, then hit a bird that plopped to the ground barely a yard from De Gaulle. "Splendid!" the general roared. "A present for you, M. le Président," responded Shriver, offering his host the fallen pheasant...
...weather was balmier, and in Russia no one would be wearing U.S. Army-style combat fatigues. But otherwise, Cuba's third anniversary celebration of Fidel Castro's rise to power might have taken place in Moscow's Red Square. Mounting his own version of Lenin's tomb-the José Marti monument in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion-Castro and his Cuban commissars proudly reviewed the crack units of a Communist-trained, Communist-supplied military machine that is bigger than that of any Western Hemisphere country except...