Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashion columnist. The world of haute couture distresses her: " 'A useful little dress' means one with no distinguishing characteristics; 'romantic' means 'cleft to the waist.' " She regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon at 7:15, by 8 it was slipping, by 9 it was down, and it was not even that sort...
...single stage rehearsal in one of opera's most treacherous roles, she sang La Traviata's Violetta only three weeks after Joan Sutherland's Met debut in the same role. With La Stupenda's triumph still fresh in mind, the critics expected only a nice try from La Costa. But after a faint and breathless first act, she became the very spirit of Verdi's epic courtesan. "It seemed the obstacles were all against me," she said, "but now I am really thrilled to death...
...same: frantic charges of "reverse racism," "black supremacy," and "black paranoia." Staunch members of our Association will not be bothered a tiny bit by the hypocritical efforts that are being made to present us as "the bad guys." All of us know that if we wanted to be thought "nice" we should know better than to join a principled and determined Association such as the AAAAS. An intelligent and intellectually honest Afro-American must forget the idea of being considered nice...
...with one fat punch. Rothenstein has to buy paintings before they get expensive and safe, and the result is a rare reputation for a public gallery. Its oldest painting dates from Henry VIII, but it also buys Britain's latest Pop artists. Says Rothenstein: "We're a nice mixture-something established and disestablished all at once...
...Hollywood, the canny Scot thinks of it as a nice place to visit. "It's a very seductive atmosphere," he says in his soft-skirring burr. "One could easily turn into a sort of sweet lush...