Word: grecian
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...middle of the bed." Thus two Americans awake to the "normal havoc" of a Sicilian morning. Howard is a huge, blond, earnest young graduate student; Sarah, his wife, is a humorous, easygoing girl with honey-colored hair and long shapely legs. They have come to Agrigento to inspect the Grecian ruins and enjoy the local color; but they stay, as Author Tom Cole relates in the superb novella that dominates his first book of stories, because Sicily seizes them in its primordial field of force...
...sold off some unprofitable properties, clipped personnel, then went to work on the theater operations. Today he puts in six days a week at his Beverly Hills office, personally screens most of the films National shows, likes to relax Sunday afternoons in the swimming pool of his $500,000 Grecian-modern mansion...
...precedent is always useful in court, so Gina Lollobrigida, 36, was saying: "The theater has always been full of daring performers since Grecian times -even the great Greta Gar bo, who undressed much more than today's actresses without creating a scandal." La Lollo was in a Roman court on charges of "outraging the public morals" by appearing apparently nude behind a bed sheet in Le Bambole (The Dolls). This was silly, said she, loftily. No great actress tries to create a scandal. "Even a spicy part can be done seriously." And besides, she cooed to the judge...
Cheerful Sadism. The comics were a long time working up to Peanuts' special style and humor. Conscientious historians like to trace the strips back to Egyptian papyrus, Grecian ceramics, medieval tapestries, or Hogarth's illustrations of 18th century London lowlife; but as a matter of practical fact, the modern comics were not born until the New York newspaper circulation wars of the 1890s, in which crude but funny comics were valued for their hold on readers...
...built sandcastles with Virginia Woolf. Other adoring contemporaries included Darwin's granddaughters, Keyneses, Stracheys and most of the other young Britons who were to leave their mark on the times. As the late Christopher Hassall makes clear in this massive, kindly biography, Rupert Brooke had everything: chirm, grace, Grecian good looks, precocious brilliance. That was his tragedy. For Rupert, everything from schoolboy success to a celebrated death came too quickly, too easily...