Word: complexions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden days of La Belle Epoque at the turn of the century, the courtesans of France were famed for their elegance, the dazzle of their jewels, and the high cost of their favors. None more so than La Belle Otero, with her jet-black hair, hourglass figure and enameled complexion. One night at the Café de Paris, five rulers of Europe offered homage at her table-Russia's Nicholas II, Britain's Edward VII, Prussia's Wilhelm II, Belgium's Leopold II and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Otero boasted, "I have been a slave...
...starve the spirit. Paradoxically, Red Desert fails as drama because Antonioni, with scrupulous care, makes places and things so much more interesting than his people that an audience cannot always tell the Christians from the lions. The film nonetheless fails magnificently, with a kaleidoscopic splash sure to alter the complexion of art cinema, and in some measure to redefine...
...evolvement of MCA from stars' agent to stars' employer has not materially affected the way in which Wasserman runs the company. It begins with personality. He is an austere man, tall and gaunt, with a pale complexion and large, deep-set eyes. He never makes a public speech, and his considerable sense of showmanship never manifests itself in flamboyance on his own part. He wears black suits, black ties, and a white shirt. It is no real accident that MCA's new skyscraper is black, its interior walls are white and, by decree, unadorned with pictures...
...Catherine Deneuve, 20, was known all over France when she was 18 as the Folle Twistante because of her appearance in a movie with guitar-swacking Johnny Hallyday. But then Svengali Roger Vadim snared her, paled her complexion, and hollowed out her cheeks for his modern-dress version of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, which he called Le Vice et La Vertu. She played Vertu. Catherine presented Vadim with a son, Christian, before he left her for a new Trilby, U.S. Actress Jane Fonda. Catherine holds no grudge against Vadim ("I have my Christian, my Vadim in miniature...
...times change, and so do jobs and outlooks. And last week Warren, now in the robes of Chief Justice of the U.S., wrote an opinion for a 6-to-3 Supreme Court majority that not only flew in the face of his earlier ideas but considerably changed the complexion of U.S. state politics...