Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other prisoners spent their days, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., working on Guiana's roads, forests and plantations, their nights locked in fetid barracks. For those who rebelled, there were solitary cells on St. Joseph Island, cement pits whose only opening was an iron grille. Few inmates long survived St. Joseph. One who did was the locally famed Paul Roussenq, an ex-soldier serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison...
...Everyone loves my tinsel, my fireworks, all this frivolity that I wear like an iron collar-not my profound, true nature...
...pair of young Iron Curtain refugees turned up in London's Festival Hall last week and put on a rare show: a firsthand demonstration of contemporary Russian ballet style. They were Hungary's Istvan Rabovsky, 23, and his wife, Nora Kovach, 21, since 1949 leading dancers in the Leningrad, Moscow and Budapest Opera ballets. They danced the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote-a circusy old number that gave little chance for high art but plenty for high jumps-with a kind of brilliant virtuosity that left balletomanes' toes twitching. Istvan won top honors with...
...U.S.S.R., entered 29 feature films in the 14th annual Venice Film Festival. The first picture shown, Hollywood's Roman Holiday, starring Gregory Peck and Newcomer Audrey Hepburn, won bravos and prolonged applause from more than a hundred critics and notables from both sides of the Iron Curtain...
...asylum in England as an anti-Communist refugee who loosened a few rivets in Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain. Edna is still reading about the exploit in the papers when Charles shows up with Eva and announces that she will stay the week. With her intuitive antennae out a mile, Edna spots Eva as phony, senses that Charles knows it too and soon realizes that Charles knows that she knows...