Word: beatonized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearing Cecil Beaton's bright costumes, traversing a brilliant Beaton drawing-room, the Lunts play Quadrille to the hilt. The only trouble is that there is no blade. The play's light volleys of wit come from a Coward who only plays doubles and no longer will go to the net; from a Coward who has written more like some fondly reminiscing oldster than a mocking enfant terrible-and with an oldster's fearful garrulousness. But however unthinkable Quadrille would be without the Lunts, with them Coward's very mildness is not altogether unwelcome...
...against and sinning mates of the Lunts. Both are agreeable, thereby undermining the Coward intent at every turn. Aherne displays more character and less foppish romanticism that the author seemed to have in mind. Miss Best, looking winning and dove-like, is asked only to coo and weep. Cecil Beaton's sets are tastefully appropriate; his idea of Serena's sitting room seems about what the Marchioness herself would choose...
...Crimson thus finished its regular season with a three and three standing, having beaton Trinity, Boston University, and M.I.T., and lost to Army, Columbia, and Yale. The team will travel to New York on Friday to participate in the postseason intercollegiate matches with 14 other teams, including all the Ivy League...
...expatriates on show, Sargent rose highest in his lifetime and fell farthest afterwards. Some of his paintings at Chicago, such as the vibrant portrait of Mile. Suzanne Poirson and the elegantly sexy Egyptian Girl (see spread), will surprise those who have come to regard him as a mere Cecil Beaton of the paintbrush. He had more dash than genius, yet in his best moments the portly, full-bearded conservative stood among the immortals...
Harvey Love leaned back in his chair in the coaches' office at Nowell Boat house tugged on his weather beaton gray fedora, the well-known symbol of Harvard's varsity crew coach, and stared glumly out the window at the wind and rain-whipped waters of the Charles...