Word: splendor
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...both "fierce" and "shy" in French). "I'm very Latin and very fierce, and a little shy," says Andréa. But, claims Nina Ricci President Robert Rieci, what captivated the company was her "interesting soul." Burbles he: "She is one of those women who have a secret splendor in their hearts...
...music of Charles Strouse would scarcely inspire an organ-grinder's monkey to rattle his cup, and Martin Charnin's lyrics are for beginning lip readers. On the plus side, David Mitchell's settings have an imposing splendor, Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes are period perfect, and Peter Gennaro's choreography pleasurably animates what is basically a placid show...
...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...
...executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
...Rogers. With her big dark eyes, full red lips, mass of raven hair and Las Vegas body, she looks the part - and she has lived some of it. The oldest child of a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools in Ceylon, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers: Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas...