Word: walke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones settled down with Wife Gloria (a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) in a three-room Paris walk-up overlooking the Seine, worked mornings on his latest novel about Jazz Guitarist Bjango Reinhardt, kept afternoons free to match wits with electric pinball machines in neighborhood bistros. Gloria, who has been sampling haute couture, said of the pinballs: "This is a new thing, and I suppose it will pass. He just gets so wound...
...crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar...
...Yardlings, garnering a winning score of 18 points to 44 for the Brown freshmen, won in a walk-away against their opponents. The Crimson team, which took 10 of the top 12 places, seized a commanding lead at the beginning of the race and maintained it right up to the finish line...
...atmosphere is very congenial. As one Harvard undergraduate remarked, "When you walk into a Smith dorm, you feel as though the walls are made of icebergs; when you walk into a Holyoke dorm, everyone is warm and friendly." The girls at Mount Holyoke admit very freely that, by the end of a male-less week of study, they are indeed happy to lay eyes on the great American college...
...clipped British accent. Another is the brusque, dammit-to-hell type society woman, a kind of orthodox Auntie Mame, who bustles around and smokes like a man. The audience, of course, likes to dream themselves into the two for an evening. What the actors do while they walk around in these characters doesn't matter a whole...