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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and fluent...
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with grace and fluent...
...soignée. adj. WELL-GROOMED. SLEEK. "she was soignée in a platinum mink stole...
...Once upon a time I was young, frivolous, carefree, and relatively slim. That was way back in 1953 A.D. I had the longest reddest nails of anyone who worked at Bergdorf Goodman and I used to stand elegantly in Bergdorf's marble rotunda . . . looking just as soignée as all get out . . . Every Friday they paid me fifty lovely dollars, less withholding, less social security, less retirement benefits, less hospitalization, and I could do just about anything I liked with the change. My husband, Bill . . . worked a little farther down Fifth [and] except for an occasional ink stain...
...Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than the rule of Prince Rainier. Filling other rows were the aging, wheelchaired Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum, the French Academy's Andre Maurois, Broadway's soignée Ilka Chase, and Jack Kelly's pals from Philly...