Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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No matter how many champagne and caviar parties a couple's friends may throw afterward, this sort of ceremony is no longer enough to satisfy the romantic yearnings of the Khrushchev generation. In the Estonian university town of Tartu, Registrar lime Toots had lately made quite a name for...
Getting into the spirit of the thing, one Kalinin house of culture director suggested that the nation's poets and composers hold a competition for the most romantic wedding march, and that each couple get a handsomely bound volume containing homilies by the country's leading Soviet intellectuals...
And yet, despite all the stereotyping, the TV Eye can be topnotch entertainment. He is what sometime Saturday Review Critic John Paterson called "every man's romantic conception of himself: the glorification of toughness, irreverence, and a sense of decency almost too confused to show itself." The Private Eye...
The inventor of the dry martini is lost in history's haze. Some romantic gin-and-vermouth scholars say it was St. Martin of Tours, patron of tosspots. Others hold that a tipsy barkeep at San Francisco's Palace Hotel happened on the formula by accident before World...
Pillow Talk (Arwin; Universal-International) offers more talk than pillows. And just in case the talk should happen to lag, as it often does, the picture also offers something beyond discussion and almost beyond belief: a romantic comedy team composed of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the box-office champions...