Word: riviera
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Into Detroit's cavernous Riviera Theater one evening last week trooped well-heeled symphony patrons alongside wide-eyed teen-agers and hep college students. While the brasses and strings shimmered and the drums rolled, the man they had come to see strolled from the wings in V-necked shirt and snug blue slacks. When the hard white lights burst on him, Harry Belafonte hunched his shoulders and launched his husky baritone into the exuberant Muleskinner Blues...
...East Coast's most complete: Port Washington, L.I.'s Riviera, which turns a healthy profit each year by providing 150 boatowners with all the standard summer-cruising services (water, ice, telephone, etc.), will also repair and store their boats during winter months...
...apparently takes only a new subject or a new medium to revitalize him. After World War II he became absorbed in lithography, largely revived it as a serious medium in France. He revived his interest in sculpture. From the abandoned perfume factory that he took over in the sleepy Riviera town of Vallauris, Picasso has turned out a host Of ceramics of his own ferocious owls, toads, bulging females, nymphs and bullfight scenes never seen before on land or kiln...
...Americans than last year's 255,400, who enriched Her Majesty's dollar reserves by $148 million. One-fifth of them will do the Windsor-Stratford-on-Avon-Warwick Castle-Edinburgh packaged run. But more and more are turning up in Torquay, the poor man's Riviera, and in Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford, one of the most businesslike of the stately-home owners, laid on a lunch of home-slaughtered-bison...
Looking bearishly cherubic in his fur-collared greatcoat, Sir Winston Churchill, 82, slowly debarked from a plane at London Airport after a two-month holiday on the French Riviera. His mind decades younger than his body, Sir Winston had busied himself at his easel and a writing desk, where he was completing his History of the English-Speaking Peoples...