Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...
...Ballet Russe, in town for its one week curtsey to the cultural center of the world, opened Monday with three old standbys and an extra Pas de Deux thrown in for kicks. It was a nice gesture, but it didn't make up for the loss of ballerinas of Danilova's calibre...
...rather earnest and demure woman offstage, Dorothy, 29, is modest about her talents. "I have a nice voice and it's pleasing. It's got a lot of soul in it. Besides, people just seem to like to look...
...most part, Director Gottfried Reinhardt keeps his film from bogging down in sentimentality. He gets expert help from his cast: as the heiress, Dorothy McGuire manages a nice mixture of frailty and charm; Van Johnson is surprisingly believable as the cad who falls in with a plot only to fall in love with his wife...
...Oxford, he was noted only as "a nice, very ordinary individual" who, for some reason, chose to nickname himself "Buggins." At St. Mary's medical school in London, he was distinguished by his passion for microscope work and his distaste for personal familiarities ("Don't touch me, please!" he told would-be backslappers...