Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through to a film director (clearly modeled on Vittorio De Sica) who screen-tests the young beauty at just about the time that the old countess looks up from her deathbed to ask, rather like a child at party's end:"What? Is life over already?" Via Veneto Glitter. Amid the eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed...
...VEGAS BOOM is losing some of its glitter. High entertainment costs (up to $50,000 weekly for a top star) and disappointing business have forced the $5,000,000 Royal Nevada to shut down, the second hotel to fold in three months. One other, the Dunes, reports financial troubles, while three more new hotels abuilding-the Tropicana, Lady Luck and Stardust-are still not finished...
...Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with Maurice Chevalier ("He was more than just a partner. He was my whole life"). Through all the glitter of her days of fame, she held on to her native French bon sens, acquired a heap of cash, a mound of jewels, three big houses and a limpid philosophy: "I love money. Not just to spend. I like to keep it-wash my hands...
Beneath all the glitter, Curtice is regarded by friends as essentially still the small-town boy who came out of Petrieville, Mich. He likes to watch the fights and The $64,000 Question on television, read the papers, hunt, watch the Detroit Tigers (the night games only). He puffs casually on Luckies, likes his Scotch and soda strong and unstirred. His idea of Saturday fun in Flint is a run through the Buick plant in the morning and a poker game with his City Club cronies in the afternoon. He lives in a relatively modest red brick corner house, with...
...becoming a drama critic," fired back Shaw in his first letter. "It happens by accident." The accident never happened to Golding Bright, but the accidental correspondence lingered on for 34 years. Now published for the first time, it consists more of literary shavings than true Shavian glitter. Shaw gave his advice off the top of his head, but since there was more top to the G.B.S. head than most, his advice, aside from a few personal quirks, is better than most. Samples...