Word: graciousness
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When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...
...more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, casual drop-in visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
...program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugin's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth Darst '99, Allison Lane '02 , Liz Santuro '01, and Davis '99 each elegantly claimed the stage with quick footwork, amazing poise and seemingly infinite amounts of grace...
...program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugni's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth Darst '99, Allison Lane '02, Liz Santuro '01 and Mai'a Davis '99 each elegantly claimed the stage with quick footwork, amazing poise and seemingly infinite amounts of grace...
...time hit album, Sing a Song of Basie. We recorded an album with Joe and Basie, and then we were touring together, usually accompanied by jazz greats such as Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald. It was during these tours that we became family. I remember generous, gracious Joe Williams would teach us how to bow collectively at the end of the evening. We didn't know what we were doing, but with him choreographing we were precise, orderly, beautiful...