Word: riviera
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...name. Russia's Czar is no more, and the 20th century has whittled down the list of Europe's monarchs to an inconspicuous handful, but in the tiny (half-mile square) principality of Monaco, which huddles precariously between the mountains and the sea on France's Riviera, the Genoese Grimaldi dynasty still rules as it has for just short of 700 years...
...knack for picking automotive winners. In 1940 he brought out the first two-tone car. In 1948, for a special investment bankers' show, Curtice ordered a Buick combining the all-weather protection of a coupe with the sporty look of a convertible. The car was the Buick Riviera, the nation's first mass-produced hardtop convertible, a style that proved so popular that it now accounts for 54% of Buick's sales...
Divorced. By Corinne Calvet, 28, bosomy French-born cinemactress (On the Riviera): John Bromfield, 32, sometime cinemactor (The Cimarron Kid); after six years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
...telling, Contessa trails a shoestring of good description: the Riviera, where the "international set gathers the way an annual fungus gathers on a beautiful tree"; the public-relations counselor, "who can be many things-some of them punishable by law"; the unusual Hollywood romance: "You could tell it was for real, because they never gave out interviews about getting married...
Though they had speed and blare at times as well as sappiness, those musicals were in general the ladyfingers of an age of hooch. The scene of The Boy Friend is a British-flavored bit of the Riviera, the romance is between two frightfully rich young things (Julie Andrews and John Hewer) who represent themselves to each other as awfully poor. "I could be happy with you," they duet, "if you could be happy with me." Between whiles, girls wearing frocks with waistlines near their shins mince about squealing genteel idiocies ; everybody makes remarks of a piercing obviousness; couples tango...