Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwarfed by the hulking form of the American Export liner Constitution, a crowd of hundreds thronged Pier 84 in Manhattan one foggy day last week. Man, woman and teen-ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business...
With a winning smile for even the stolid longshoremen, Grace walked up the gangplank, made her way to the sun deck, where another crowd awaited...
...Please! Please!" This one represented, in effect, most of the population of the U.S. in the form of 250 reporters, photographers and movie and television cameramen. Because it was raining on deck, Grace appeared for her press conference in the Pool Café room, flanked by five pressagents and a platoon of cops. The room was packed from wall to wall. Quickly she was backed into a corner, with cameras and newsmen inches from her face...
...scene. Crushed together, reporters shouted their questions; photographers climbed on the bar, on tables, stools, railing, on each other's shoulders for height, and, with flashbulbs crunching underfoot, shouted orders at their victim: "Hey, Grace! Looka me!" "Stand up, Grace!" "Take it off, Grace [the hat]!" Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention. The conference got so out of hand that a pressagent shouted: "Please! Please! Behave like ladies and gentlemen!" Another cried: "This is a press conference, not a riot! Unless you back up and give this...
...young lovers sleep, peering like douanier Rousseau's tiger, an ominous and imposing reality. In another instance a group of cats prey like vultures around the form of a young girl who is sleeping amidst a bacchanalian dance in the forest. Mr. Berger saves his naive world by this grace. If one lives in a dream world there are also nightmares...