Word: carat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia Story (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Philip Barry's carat-dangling romance, with Ruth Roman, Mary Astor, Diana Lynn, Gig Young, Don DeFore. Color...
Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Holly Golightly gets stuck with a no-carat man every time...
Study in Contrasts. Wherever they come from, all the girls would get a high Kublai Khan rating. Oddly enough, perhaps the easiest of all recruiting jobs involved the 20-carat stars. Early last spring Rodgers saw Pat Suzuki on Jack Paar's television show and recognized her right away as his stripper, Linda Low. After Miyoshi's Oscar-winning performance in the movie Sayonara, both Rodgers and Hammerstein realized that Mei Li's lines had been written for no one else...
...Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...