Word: pompadour
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...over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"-the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
Kinsey is a solidly built man with greying, buff-colored hair in a short pompadour, eyes that vary between blue and hazel, and a sensitive, rather tense mouth above a hard jaw. His wife, whom he calls "Mac," was a graduate student of chemistry, and has been a great help. Being scientifically trained, she raised no objection at all when he started his work on sex, and sometimes she helps him in the office typing confidential documents. She teaches classes in swimming, runs the local Girl Scout camp, and loves the great outdoors...
Stumpy and stubborn, with a pompadour of snowy hair and the operatic manner of a political Toscanini, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy (1917-19), stamped out of the Versailles Conference because the "other three" would not give him the port of Fiume. Clemenceau dubbed him "The Weeper," and Orlando himself recalled proudly: "When ... I knew they would not give us what we were entitled to ... I writhed on the floor. I knocked my head against the wall. I cried. I wanted...
Sirloin & Champagne. By 5:30, after an hour and 15 minutes of singing, she was back in her dressing room. She rested for half an hour, then downed a 1-lb. sirloin and a glass of champagne, while her hairdresser built up her pompadour for Cosi. After an hour's nap, she changed into hoop skirts, and adjusted her mind from the tragic 15th century Desdemona to the gaily artificial 18th century Fiordiligi. That done, she went to the piano, vocalized on scales for ten minutes, sang a few warm-up bars from Cosi. By curtain time...
...told him that the work was subversive, and the King had duly ordered its confiscation. But-as Voltaire tells the story-the King read all about the rights of the crown and promptly began to question his own decision. "Upon my word," cried His Majesty to Madame de Pompadour, "I can't tell why they spoke so ill of this book...