Word: lombards
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...went on to become a highly regarded poet and novelist?his book White Gestures was a top seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when...
...style by marrying comfort with elegance; of throat cancer; in New Preston, Conn. Among his signatures were striped sailor T shirts in fine fabrics and cashmere sweaters atop taffeta skirts as alternatives to evening dresses. The son of a hardware-store owner from Fort Wayne, Ind., Blass watched Carole Lombard movies and sketched New York City cocktail parties as a boy; later, he dressed--and befriended--such clients from the social elite as Nancy Reagan and Pamela Harriman...
...been easier to achieve in Hollywood's so-called Golden (read: Caucasian) Age, when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame, to menial roles, to dialogue that usually ran the tiniest...
Harvard pulled ahead of Yale with four minutes gone by, as sophomore forward Tim Pettit took advantage of Yale’s failure to clear the puck and potted a point-blank shot behind Yale goalie Dan Lombard...
...expression of emotion. For moviegoers, moving pictures of moving figures could be so ... moving. Poetry in motion. As the girl was swept into the boy?s arms, viewers were swept into the deepest empathy. That?s why, to many people, the most romantic film couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range...