Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater actress all the way; yet her history with Hollywood has been curious. Time after time, Hollywood has offered other actresses with box-office names roles that Geraldine Page has eventually been given by default-Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth-and each time Page has won an Oscar nomination. Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself...
...mold, and people anxious to keep her there liked to say that she was a splendid weeping willow but not much else. No one said that any more after they saw her in Separate Tables, playing both a repressed spinster and a glamorous high-fashion model. In Sweet Bird of Youth, she was a supremely fading beauty, the sharded Hollywood sexpot with her heart on her thigh. Her manner and expression are so mobile, in fact, that it is possible to see four pictures of her in four different roles and not know it is the same woman. Even though...
...final" rules on tax deductions for business entertainment. Every time Caplin has tried before to clarify what can or cannot be written off, he has only upset more businessmen, who are inconsolable anyway. This time, under pressure from the hotel and restaurant lobbies, he taxed himself to show sweet reasonableness by liberalizing the rules. Businessmen will find it easier than they had thought to charge off casual lunches, parties at home or a night out with wives. Main items...
...going well at the Casanova Hotel ("They charge by the hour; nobody could afford to live there") near Paris' Les Halles. The girls are busy and happy, and Irma the Sweet is the busiest and happiest. Then disaster strikes. A new flic comes on the beat-Lemmon playing a flatfoot so square that he even pays for the apples he filches. He is scandalized by the hustlers' bustling and phones headquarters for a raid. Soon the arrondissement is ringing with the soldo, soldo, soldo klaxon of the police wagon, and the minuscule lobby of the Casanova looks like...
...newer cityscapes, which went on display last week at Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery, are suffused with such sunny fragrance that the New York Times's hard-headed critic, John Canaday, went all soft trying to find an adjective with which to praise them (he said "sweet," but quickly apologized...