Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferocity & Chic. What the painting did have was a vigor to match its huge size. In places it looks as vital as a plunge of lightning-or at least as the stormy "N" of Napoleon's signature. Those who find exhilaration in fast driving at night might well warm to the picture, for it creates a sense of deep black space shot through with gleams, glares, flashes and slow beams of light. The blood-red tangle at the center, brilliantly meshed with the whites, is like a single note of ferocity which saves the whole from coldness...
...voice of Abbé Pierre went on: "Empty your attics, Parisians. There may be venerable things in them, but they're less venerable than the lives of babies." As the Abbé strode through a tent shelter late last week, a woman in a chic Persian lamb coat handed him $210 collected from friends. "Monsieur 1'Abbé," she cried. "You have awakened...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...
Helping Hand. Two years ago, however, Longo took up with a chic party member who was not so easily palmed off-young, slender Bruna Conti. Soon after she bore him a child, Bruna began insisting that Longo marry her. Last fall the nearby Communist-dominated little Republic of San Marino, which is always ready to give Italy's Reds a helping hand, announced that it had granted Luigi Longo a divorce...
...comedy of manners much enhanced by a polished production. Treating of the Long Island rich, it is also romantic comedy about a young lady with three suitors. The young lady (Margaret Sullavan) is a chauffeur's daughter, brought up among two of her swains, and now back home, chic and socially hep, after working five years in Paris. Which man Sabrina wants is clear enough, but there is a family problem about his marrying beneath him, and a personal problem, since he does not want to marry...