Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rang with the sound of freedom." She wore a $75,000 string of pearls to enhance her own designs. To achieve dramatic effects she often mixed these with costume jewelry which she introduced to the world of high fashion. Quick tongued and beautiful ("Like a little black swan," said Cocteau; "like a little black bull," said Colette), Coco had one love affair after another, though she never married. One of her most persistent admirers was the Duke of Westminster, who employed three couriers running between London and Paris with their love letters. When he finally proposed, Coco turned him down...
...year-old Betty Peabody of Trollope Street, who looked after Tony for three years in his Pimlico apartment. His other guests range from a bus driver and the postmistress of the Welsh village of Bontnewydd, near his father's home, to such stage celebrities as Jean Cocteau, Leslie Caron, Sir Michael Redgrave and Emlyn Williams. Marlene Dietrich was invited but, like all the crowned heads of Europe except Queen Ingrid of Denmark, she is too busy to come...
...candy. Some called him "the young Rimbaud," and he was taken up by all the "in" people. He married Nijinsky's daughter Kira (they were divorced during the war, and he is now married to an Italian princess). He wrote a cantata on a poem by Jean Cocteau, Hymnes, for orchestra, and a host of other breathlessly energetic works...