Word: candida
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...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...
...week. He is a bachelor, and lives a most unpublic life. He has a stately manor house on 16 acres in Surrey½ hour commute from London. Owls hoot in the woodlands, the Rolls-Royce ticks in the drive, his horses neigh in the night, and his mastiff Candida barks. Inside, Dirk Bogarde communes with the telly. "After a hard day's work," he says, "I just want to slouch in front of a television set and watch other people make fools of themselves...
Died. Eugene Speicher, 79, peerless U.S. portraitist, a robust, orderly New Yorker who imposed his own stamp of warm-hued repose-at its best in his pinky luminous nudes-on all his subjects from Katharine Cornell as Candida to country bumpkins; after a long illness; in Woodstock, N.Y., where in 1907 he founded an art colony with his close friend, Artist George Bellows...
...like her hero, most readers will succumb to Author Tracy's finest creation: nubile Candida Firebrace, a velvet-eyed Calypso shouter whose hymn to the Christ Child runs...
Already a member of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, lovely Candida is also enrolled in an evangelical sect called Pilgrim Zeal, which has promised her a trip to their holy of holies: Minneapolis, Minn. Candida races about the islands with the enraptured but platonic Henry (her only proviso: "We must not make a baby!"). She involves him in punching a local union leader in the jaw and horsewhipping an editor. The timid colonial government claps Henry into jail and ships him off as a bundle for Britain...