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...those who take their cycling seriously there will be more than fun and frolic at Wellesley. Grand Prize is a sleek new Dawes racer. Generator light sets and other prizes will also be awarded by the Bicycle Exchange...
Barcelona spread out the purple carpet last week for the New York City Ballet. At the airport, young gallants deluged the American chicas with flowers, and tried to make dates. On opening night, sleek limousines brought an elegant throng to the 100-year-old Teatro del Liceo. All in all, the first continental venture of the New York City Ballet, if not entirely an artistic triumph by Spanish standards, was emphatically a social...
Actually, Mrs. Roosevelt's career has been a triumphant assertion of the code of a half-forgotten 400-of that fortlike social world which existed in New York when sleek carriage horses still clopped along Fifth Avenue, when her "Uncle Ted" was President, and when World War I had yet to create the disconcerting erosions of the speakeasy age. When she abandoned that world she did not abandon its ways. Its aristocratic accents, its manners, its almost arrogant denial of ostentation, its odd blindnesses-even, it seemed, a lady's instinctive feeling that feminine candor would...
...Sleek and slinky Countess Pia Bellentani was an amateur poetess and a woman of passion. She had long regarded her relations with the middle-aged count, her husband, as a "purely formal duty." Her friend Carlo Sacchi the silk merchant was an amateur poet as well and only slightly less passionate. In Italy's caviar and champagne set during the early '40s, the two made a neatly rhymed couplet, and even Signora Sacchi nodded at their idyl on the theory that it was only a "passing passion...
...Brando's sleek, well-fed countenance clashes with his role of a down-trodden, land-hungry peasant. His sullen, unchanging expression and aggravating yes-no-ugh dialogue gives an impression of blank stupidity, and his occasional philosophical pronunciamentos seem completely out of character. Brando's Zapata could never be the leader of 40,000 men, the symbol of a social movement, or the hero of Mexican folklore--in short, he could not be the real Zapata or even a believable facsimile. And with its central figure reduced to such a nonentity, the tale of Emiliano Zapata becomes a trail...