Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste of victory was fresh and sweet to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Just about a year ago, he sat in the drawing room of his Georgetown home and spoke breezily about the office he would assume. "Sure it's" a big job," he said. "But I don't know anybody who can do it any better than I can. I'm going to be in it for four years. It isn't going to be so bad. You've got time to think-and besides, the pay is pretty good...
...fragmented, but the theme is whole. It is the theme that has always possessed Williams-the violated heart-violation by repression, starvation, brutalization, isolation. A brooding sense of aloneness and man's yearning need for human contact is uppermost in Iguana. After the empty self-parody of Sweet Bird of Youth, The Night of the Iguana restores to playgoers the Williams who can create a poetry of mood, language, character and imagination as elemental as earth, air, fire and water. This is perhaps the wisest play he has ever written...
Died. Henri Charpentier, 81, famed French chef who in 1894 invented crepes suzette by putting together a "sweet never before served to anyone" for the delectation of the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Redondo Beach, Calif...
West Side Story. This big, slick cine-musical, like the Broadway show it is based on, decorates its hoods with halos and its cops with badges of dishonor, but its dances still seem (mostly) fresh and its Romeo and Juliet story still seems (mostly) sweet...
...middle 405, suddenly finds her career and her marriage interrupted-she closes out of town in an ingenue role, and not long afterward her husband dies. Wealthy and alone, she takes a luxurious flat in Rome and begins, in a quiet, middle-aged way, to live the sweet life, begins to drift. With energy to burn, she soon finds herself wishing that some man would put a match to it; but no man appears...