Word: parisian
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...Gogh, whose resemblance to his uncle is extraordinary--sans white hair, he could double as the Vincent of the Parisian period--also has the warmth and kindness that his father possessed to so great an extent. He is a direct link to major figures in a vital period of the history...
...goings-on go sour, or the story droops: Nestor-Oscar, for example, outwears its welcome. But under Peter Brook's brilliant direction, most of Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite Monnot's score has a gay street-music tinniness that can have resonance too, as in the rousing wail of From a Prison Cell or the ring and bounce of There Is Only One Paris for That. But it is England's dark, dynamic...
...disturbed over her "devil-may-care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year for togs at famous Parisian houses, such as Cardin, Grès, Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy. She buys avant-garde models, added Women's Wear breathlessly, and most of the big designers keep a Jacqueline Kennedy fashion dummy close by for fittings...
...Alan Jay Lerner the book adapter and lyricist, Moss Hart the director, Julie Andrews one of the stars (Nov. 17). Irma la Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light, fantastic tale of a Paris poule or tart (Sept. 29). Multitalented Meredith (The Music Man) Willson takes his second shot at Broadway with The Unsinkable Molly Brown-a story of the Titanic disaster and a survivor otherwise known as Tammy Grimes (Nov. 3). Tenderloin...
When A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford offered to build an $862,500 Parisian-style sidewalk cafe and pavilion in Manhattan's Central Park as a gift to the city, he might just as well have proposed a boiler factory for all the protesting cries it aroused. Moaning about this "unwarranted invasion," a curious assortment of allies, ranging from Funnyman Henry Morgan ("Anybody who chops down one tree ought to be executed") to the Fifth Avenue Association and Tiffany & Co., which brought a still pending court suit, apparently on the theory that soda sipping is bad for the diamond business...