Word: rococo
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Lucius Beebe, U.S. journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
...tried to even the score by throwing in an extra helping of Glamor on sets and costumes. One of the first postwar productions to splurge on lavish, prewar-style props, the picture was shot over five acres of lot covered with $300,000 worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...
...rococo Paris Opera House last week had its first command performance for troops since Hitler and friends were entertained there in June 1940. This time the audience was a khaki blend of 2,200 G.I.s, WACs, British Tommies. They got a lecture-demonstration of the mysteries of ballet...
...Spirit & the Flute. In Potsdam's rococo rooms the great Emperor Frederick had played his flute (not badly); in its disciplined gardens he had schemed to confuse and divide his enemies. Since then, Potsdam had symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
...forthcoming meeting in the Russian-occupied area near Berlin. The best guess was that it would be held at Germany's "imitation Versailles"-wooded, gardened Potsdam. There Frederick the Great* had plotted strategy to divide his enemies; there he had built his quadrangular Sanssouci. Potsdam's rococo palaces were just what the Russians, British and Americans needed for separate quarters. Whether or not Harry Truman could there present a U.S.-approved world security charter, he had apparently made up his mind on the key points of his Big Three dealings: i) he would be a, leader...