Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinking man's John Wayne. In half a century behind the typewriter, he built a name as a swashbuckling reporter, a capable novelist, a prosperous Hollywood script doctor and a painstaking biographer of such romantic rascals as John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince) and Jimmy Walker (Beau James). In the course of his career he became something of a romantic rascal himself, a legendary prodigy in bar and bedroom alike...
...saying this because I keep telling her that she must take her time about these things, but it happened very quickly," reminisced Princess Grace, who said yes to Prince Rainier after only a few dates. Actually Daughter Caroline, 20, has ears -and eyes-these days only for her beau, Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation to share the royal...
...shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter and her beau say an entire rosary before embarking on an evening's date...
Their taste for the beau geste turns out to be their undoing. They are dressed as Free Polish soldiers on maneuvers as they await Churchill's arrival. Their cover is blown when one of their number reveals the German uniform he is wearing underneath his disguise as he rescues a child from a potentially nasty accident. Much small-arms fire and much suspenseful running about ensue, well staged by the veteran director Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). There is a satisfying surprise ending that serves as a neat moral reckoning as well...
However, if you have not degenerated to the ultimate limits of poltroonishness, you may heed the Duke's advice and forget about those categories and enjoy jazz this weekend in Cambridge. After all they even argue about whether the term "jazz" was derived from the Creole Chasse-beau or a sexual association, derived from jasm--so you won't be trailblazing, merely patience-breaking, if you try to discover pure jazz. Like Disraeli's put-down of Bismarck's revelling in the label "honest broker," ("There is no honest broker") the phrase is a contradiction in terms...