Word: gorgeousity
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...California's Muscle Beach set who had tried Broadway and TV and even studied a little chiropractic before an Italian producer picked him up for Hercules. On a tip, Levine flew to Rome and looked at the picture. Says he: "It had action and sex, a near shipwreck, gorgeous women on an island and a guy tearing a goddam building apart. And where did you ever see a guy with a body like Reeves has?" Levine bought the picture for $120,000, dubbed in English dialogue, even for Reeves ("Who ain't gonna win no Oscar this year...
...Once the home of Peggy ("The Gorgeous Hussy") O'Neill (1796-1879), beautiful daughter of an innkeeper, who precipitated a historic scandal in Andrew Jackson's Administration. A widow, vivacious Peggy was for years the reputed mistress of Tennessee's Democratic Senator John Henry Eaton. Because there was a frightful flutter of gossip hovering over the pair, President-elect Jackson urged Eaton to "go marry her at once and shut their mouths." After Jackson appointed Eaton his Secretary of War, the gossip only worsened, and capital society, led by the wife of Vice President John Calhoun, barred...
When Aldous Huxley saw a Brave New World in his crystal ball (1932), he borrowed the name soma for his panacea: "There is always soma, delicious soma, half a gram for a half-holiday, a gram for a weekend, two grams for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon." That was 600 years hence, in the 7th century After Ford...
Venice, the lagoon city that once "held the gorgeous East in fee," is now down to glass blowing, lacemaking, and putting up tourists. As its ancient islands and handsome buildings sink ever deeper into the waters of the lagoon, Venetians and their businesses have been migrating to the booming towns of Mestre and Porto Marghera on the mainland near by, while the population of Venice itself has dwindled to about the same number of citizens (170,000) as it held in 1500. To halt their city's decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial...
...third act, the playboy comes back from "the sports" where he wins his title, gorgeous in jockey's silks, and Mr. McNamara decides that it is time for him to grow into his heroic pose. In the ensuing love scene with Miss Carroll he plays it straight, and matches her in eloquence...