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Word: fichus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charming lecherdemain in the scenes involving Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold, a sexless performance from Caron and a lifeless one from Jourdan, a wonderful happy ending which wittily demonstrates that life has more tricks than an old tart, a singable (though not memorable) musical score, and enough bibelots, furbelows, fichus, berthas, boas, sconces, socles, credenzas, teapoys and Canterburies to deliriously overdecorate this most ornate of the cinema's recurrent funerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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