Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days when tall, aloof Nordic blondes dominated the beauty contests. Last year a warm-skinned lovely from Peru was crowned Miss Universe and last week a fiery Miss Colombia won the title. For the switch from underplayed femininity to the bold smolder, see THE HEMISPHERE, Fire v. Ice...
This is how Nikita Khrushchev saluted his fellow Communists at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow last week: "It is a good time we all live in. The ice has broken, as it does during spring flood; everything is in turmoil. Everything moves ahead in its historical development. Vain are the efforts to stem the liberation struggle...
...Nordic types had things pretty much their own way for five years. Glacial Grace Kelly was setting a world standard of beauty, the winning faces were aloof, the busts visible but not too obvious, the legs long and slim. Last year things suddenly went dark. Fire, not ice, won going away; Miss Universe was dark-haired, liquid-eyed Gladys Zender, 18, of Peru; second place went to a warm-skinned Miss Brazil, and the fourth-place trophy went home to Havana with a raven-tressed Miss Cuba...
Even as a schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year-old, swan-necked beauty who is moving through her first season of heady triumphs on the stage...
...first play shows us Mr. Malcolm, a sloppy middle-aged failure and exconvict who has turned to left-wing writing and the bottle. He is confronted after eight years by his twice-divorced ex-wife, a 40-year-old beauty "carved in ice"--vain, mendacious, and desperate--who "can't face getting old." Their reconciliation at the end, we know, will be short-lived. All the other hotel residents are lonely too, but they hate to admit...