Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only surprises Cocteau prepared for his entry into the academy, however, were his costume, an especially fancy Académie uniform tailored (by Lanvin) of midnight blue instead of the traditional green with gold braid, and his sword (by Cartier) with a hilt modeled to represent a profile of Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets...
...virus together, made the solution slightly acid and held it just above freezing point for 24 hours. At the end of this period, the protein molecules had rearranged themselves on the nucleic acid cores. When tested on tobacco plants, the virus proved infectious. It grew and multiplied in the green leaves, producing the characteristic spots of tobacco mosaic disease...
...performance. His problem was to portray a man who is everything he seems to be, who knows no lapse between the thought and the act, who wears his entire psyche on his sleeve. From the first fine flap of his dewlaps ("Hey, give us a shot of those gorgeous green orbs") to his endearing little growl ("Who wants to grow up in the world as it is?"), to the burp he releases exquisitely in the middle of a word, More is the perfect type of the easygoing dog that everybody wants to pet but nobody wants to clean up after...
...novel but with flaunting style, like a merry kilt to Scottish calves. Moreover, Quentin Durward is as easy on the eyes as on the ears. Much of the film was shot around the finest châteaux-Chenonceaux, Chambord, Maintenon, Fontainebleau-and the graces of French stone and green have lent a coquetry and lightness to these scenes that the art and costume people have tastefully maintained...
Born. To Jan Sterling (real name: Jane Sterling Adriance), 32, tough-gal-typed blonde cinemactress (Women's Prison), and Paul Douglas, 48, cinemactor (Green Fire): their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Adams. Weight...