Word: molto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Novelist Gilbert is a journalist who won't admit it. The contrived, never-say-die plot of The Beautiful Life is simply a device to move his characters through the inner circle. Exclusive restaurants and discotheques, the Plaza, "molto snob" boutiques and hair salons, Parke-Bernet, Sutton Place, a round of Capotesque parties, and assorted Upper East Side bedrooms...
Girls con Brio. "Every issue of Playboy ," Hefner has said, "must be paced like a symphony." While there may be a scherzo of cartoons, a largo of literature, a rondo of reportage, the allegro in each addition is still the girls, and molto con brio. Although girl pictures take up less than 10% of the pages, they remain the main motif. The style for the centerfold Playmate was set by the maestro himself. He chose a rather average though well-endowed girl named Charlene Drain who worked in his subscription department. She said the department needed an Addressograph machine. Sure...
...coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when one is in Rome, one ought to, etc., etc., etc. Not wishing to offend, the Italians went native and played molto dolcissimo...
...When I play, I turn the pages in my mind," he explains, "and I know that in the bottom right-hand corner of this page is a little coffee stain, and on that page I have written molto vivace." He has, in fact, a kind of built-in Hit Parade network that spins music on request through his inner ear. "At breakfast," says Rubinstein, "I might pass a Brahms symphony in my head. Then I am called to the phone, and half an hour later I find it's been going on all the time...
...London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Stirling Moss drifted endlessly in and out of consciousness, talking dreamily in three languages about beautiful women and fast cars. "Connie, vous étes une belle fille. Vous étes très sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred...