Word: riviera
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...time they got the bottles swept up in Antibes and Juan-les-Pins last week, it was magnificently evident: the marriage of Sidney Bechet, Negro patriarch of New Orleans jazz, to his new white wife had turned into the gaudiest rout on the Riviera since Rita Hayworth married Aly Khan...
...Riviera saw it all as an occasion of profound sentiment: Bechet and his new wife had been engaged before (in 1928); they had married others, been divorced, met again recently in Algiers, decided to keep their old engagement...
...Riviera. Danny Kaye plays a double role in a cinemusical whose laughs, songs and dances sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor (TIME...
...femme fatale, Harry is no fool, and Harry's friend (the nameless narrator of the story) is a retiring writer who wouldn't murder a flea except in print. Moreover, the scene on the Riviera beach is part of a cure, not a calamity...
Harry decides that Eve's is a case of innocence unhinged by a rage to live. Perhaps the Riviera will bring her out of her dreams. It does, of course, with the unexpected help of the French mechanic. He disappears into some wild blue yonder, leaving her with a child, and his casual farewell crashes all Eve's myths and completes her cure...