Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died in the quiet of a Riviera late afternoon, in his hotel apartment overlooking Nice. His secretary, his nurse, his doctor and a daughter were with him. For 14 years he had remarkably survived the ravages of intestinal cancer, although doctors, in 1941, had given him only six months to live. But at 84, Matisse's heart finally stopped...
...changed only superficially, yet met with steadily growing acceptance and eventually with acclaim. He became a millionaire, and the world's great museums vied for the honor of exhibiting his work. Shining land, sea and streetscapes lay just outside his tall, half-shuttered windows at Nice; he brought them indoors onto canvas. His scores of "odalisques"-with a bosomy local girl posing amid a few harem props -were among his best-known pictures, not so much cheesecake as souffle, not so much woman's form as woman's charm...
...brought the Crimson varsity football teams a nice even total of 500 victories since the sport was taken up in 1874, but 502 would be even nicer. During the same period, the College lost only 173 games while tying 37 others.In the first picture, injury-hobbled JOE CONZELMAN gets trapped deep in Harvard territory as two Princeton backs close in on him. In the middle sequence, sophomore fullback TONY GIANELLY halts a Princeton scoring threat as he knocks one of Tiger left halfback Sammy Pinch's passes out of the hands of its intended receiver. In the third picture...
...most of its time to introducing Ronald Howard (36-year-old son of the late Actor Leslie Howard) as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford, grandson of Novelist F. Marion Crawford, as the bumbling Watson. Filmed in London and Paris by Sheldon (Foreign Intrigue) Reynolds, the opening show had a nice period flavor, but the script, written by Reynolds, was inferior to even the feeblest efforts of A. Conan Doyle...
...successes in the post-war world, sort of mature Martin and Lewis types. They and a pair of insipid girl singers put on a musical comedy at a small but snowless Vermont ski resort, thus saving the investment of their former commanding general, a stern disciplinarian, but really a nice guy underneath. They succeed...