Word: riviera
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...object of this lavish praise is a lean and elegant Englishman who divides his time between the sun-swept luxury of the Riviera and the box-hedged comfort of his country home in Kent. He has a pretty and helpful wife, and earns the income, as he puts it, of "a high-grade civil servant." He appears to be almost as much at home in society as in his studio, and is not averse to designing rugs, or painting occasional portraits of the great...
...Angeles, visited a small nightclub, and landed a singing job after getting into an audience-participation act. She was the demure type in those days, with long hair and bouffant dresses-"real silly." She played such big rooms as Giro's in Hollywood and New Jersey's Riviera with "moderate success...
...stay in business only if he lent them funds until the National Assembly approved its budget. They entrusted to him four mysterious flasks and a jug that gurgled. "Uranium and heavy water," explained Colonel Berthier. There was even a sinister, bearded Russian who appeared at the baron's Riviera villa with an offer of $850,000 for the uranium. The baron refused, and the Russian later turned up dead-or so the baron was told...
...three playlets, ranging in setting from the British provinces to the French Riviera and in subject from the British lower middle class to the international set, are corrosive social commentaries under a blithe veneer...
...climax of a big retrospective show in Rome, Spain's leathery, little Pablo Picasso produced two huge (32 ft. by 16 ft.) panels (opposite), painted for his own abandoned, 14th century chapel in Vallauris on the French Riviera. Picasso's War shows a team of horses pulling a hearse through seas of blood. Atop the carriage sits a monster with a pack full of corpses; his snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors...