Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would do anything for Pandora, that Witch of Esperanto, that dare-all and do-all of Las Dos Tortugas. A rich playboy killed himself for her. A famous bullfighter killed someone else, or tried to, for her. But these mere men were...
...Beverley (like most of his answers) in the form of a three-decker cliché. He was unhappy because "the clouds were gathering over Europe ... the tragedy of Geneva hastening to its final act ... the disciples of rearmament beginning to raise their voices." And what, if anything, could a playboy like Beverley do to disperse the clouds, delay the final act, silence the raised voices? All I Could Never Be, Nichols' second autobiographical book, tells exactly what Beverley did; but, as it is well spiced with rose-geranium anecdotes and set against a backdrop of Mayfair and Riviera high...
These two, together with Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, prance through a script which seems a flimsy, somewhat gruesome takeoff on Guys and Dolls, since it concerns the attempts of a playboy to win the hand of a prissy Salvation Army-type girl. Regrettably, The Belle of New York lacks both the Broadway characters and the amusing lyrics of Guys and Dolls, and there is nothing substituted for them...
...worth a dozen doctors in a far-away hospital. Last week, as the rumbling political volcano of Egypt blew its top in a roar of fulminant frenzy, first aid was urgently needed. It was firmly applied by a young king whom the West had long regarded as a fatuous playboy...
After weeks of tabloid ballyhoo, curious patrons, including her Texas playboy husband Sheppard King, packed into a Miami Beach nightclub for the American premiere of Samia Gamal's torso-twisting harem dance. In bare feet, a gossamer pink skirt slit down the middle, gold tassels glittering round her bare midriff, Samia slithered through four minutes of her "real oriental art." Then she hurried to her dressing room for a Band-Aid for her big toe, which she had cut on the glass floor. Critical consensus: domestic burlesque is good...