Word: pompadoured
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...Saintly Pompadour. Mary Lee sailed for Europe in 1855, an outwardly demure 17-year-old determined to make her mark and spread her Calvinist faith. When she snagged the elderly Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, she planned a honeymoon of New Testament grandeur. The couple retraced St. Paul's path to Damascus, camped out for a month in imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux...
...tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace of Versailles, with illuminated fountains and gardens, an 18th century ballet in the glittering Louis XV theater, and a banquet in the Hall of Mirrors...
...going up on Broadway billboards, but the new shows are still weeks away. Until they arrive, last season's survivors will have to serve. Among the best are Bye Bye Birdie, which takes some of the curl out of a rock-'n'-roll idol's pompadour; Fiorello!, a sunny salute to New York City's late Mayor La Guardia; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in jazz time. Among the straight dramas still pulling customers from the hot pavements are Toys in the Attic, in which Lillian Hellman pits poor Jason
...summit meeting, and had to send a motorcycle cop out the Pleurs road to hand the invitation to the wandering Khrushchev. At 3 the others gathered somberly in the conference room at the Elysée Palace, which 200 years ago had been the dining salon of Madame de Pompadour. By then Khrushchev was back in Paris, but instead of sitting in the empty red plush armchair that was awaiting him, he was relaxing in a bathtub at the Soviet embassy...
...Salon. Shortly before 11 a.m., the limousines, with their fluttering national standards, began to arrive at Paris' freshly scrubbed Elysee Palace. Unsmiling, the Soviet, British and U.S. delegations in turn climbed up the Elysee's colonnaded staircase to their destination: a sunny salon where once Madame de Pompadour used to hold intimate dinners for her cronies in the court of Louis XV. There, in view of the blossom-laden chestnut tree that dominates the Elysee gardens, the fateful confrontation began...