Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chic. Though life has grown noticeably more placid for Desi and Lucille, it promises more money than they ever made before. Desilu Productions has already branched out beyond I Love Lucy. It is filming TV commercials for Red Skelton, and is at work on a new TV series, Our.Miss Brooks, starring Eve Arden. Three of the best 30-minute Lucy shows are being put together in a package and will be experimentally released to movie theaters in the U.S. and Latin America. This year, / Love Lucy has grossed about $1,000,000, and Sponsor Philip Morris has signed a contract...
...reaching the TV top, Lucille's telegenic good looks may be almost as important as her talent for comedy. She is sultry-voiced, sexy, and wears chic clothes with all the aplomb of a trained model and showgirl. Letters from her feminine fans show as much interest in Lucille's fashions as in her slapstick. Most successful comediennes (e.g., Imogene Coca, Fanny Brice, Beatrice Lillie) have made comic capital out of their physical appearance. Lucille belongs to a rare comic aristocracy: the clown with glamour...
...Hatlike Hothouse. With "great sobs tearing me to pieces," Beverley was soon carted off to a mental home, suffering from a nervous breakdown. He feared he was going mad-"But if I am . . ." he assured a friend, "I might as well do it with a certain amount of chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church...
Though fearless in her frontline social work, Pepita admits to one great terror: "Of mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine...
Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...