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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks the role gamely. To prepare for it, she read everything she could find on Jeanne Eagels. "The first thing I read said she was irrational and sensitive and all the things I sort of am, and how she used to eat pickles in school like me." Kim was instantly attracted. She plastered her dressing room with pictures of the star (whom she actually resembles), rehearsed while a phonograph played mood music of the '203. For sad scenes, an accordionist played Poor Butterfly. But in the picture, Kim proves more kitten than tigress; her tempests rattle not even...
...cost and futility of its Algerian effort, and sought to arrest that mood. At the moment, the government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury is operating on the dubious premise that the revolt can be "pacified," after which Algerian nationalists will get political benefits. But the deadline to this sort of postponement is the September U.N. session, when the Arab-Asian bloc can be expected to raise the Algerian question again. The French government is currently studying a project to offer Algeria a loi cadre (a "skeleton of law" to be fleshed out as the need arises), in advance...
Strictly Earthbound. Even D. H. Lawrence, to whom sexuality was the essence of life, tinged it richly with a sort of mysticism. But Colette, genius or no, was unique in regarding life as a marvelous array of strictly earthbound sensuous experiences. In novels such as Chéri and Julie de Carneilhan, she described as never before the precise effects of fingers upon skin, the allure of perfumes, the sensual enchantments of voices, glances and languorous movements...
...young in business, he put together the Container Corp. combine, pushed the idea of modern design into such areas as annual reports and office interiors, pioneered a new type of institutional advertising with his series on the "Great Ideas of Western Man." Paepcke started to develop Aspen as a sort of all-round cultural and sport center; he has already sunk $800,000 of his own money into the project...
...loose parallels in Deke's and Presley's careers will set off happy squeals among the juke-box brigade. Some cheer-jerking implications: Elvis was sort of born with a guitar in his hands, a Hydra-Matic shift in his hips, a fog in his throat-and he never recovered. Elvis will fight bullies only if extremely provoked because bad publicity draws standing-room-only audiences. Elvis don't drink or smoke, and he don't like girls that...