Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swimming & Sand. Jamaica's six-story, 176-room Arawak (up to $58 a day for double with meals) is designed for aficionados of Miami Beach styling: rippling concrete, bright colors, polygonal swimming pool, straw-and-mahogany decor. Its planner was Morris Lapidus, architect of Florida's Fontainebleau, Eden Roc and Americana, who likes his hotels to "tickle and amuse." The $4,000,000 Arawak is set on Jamaica's smart north shore in sunny palm groves between a high, green range of mountains and the azure Caribbean, has a white sand beach. Owners: an international group headed...
Integrity v. Thirst. Jimmy had some actual opponents for the job, but they were feeble and halfhearted. Chief among them: Chicago Teamsters Tom Haggerty and Bill Lee. Trying at first to campaign on moral grounds, Haggerty opened campaign headquarters in the gargantuan Fontainebleau Hotel, dispensed several cases of liquor before he discovered that the Teamster delegates were less morally indignant over Hoffa's actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful...
Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
...Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble. I said, we got starving kids in this country and here they got marble gutters. Both the U.S. and Russia are run by a bunch of crooks, traits and ratters-I mean rats and traitors...
...December 1946 Dior retired to the home of a frieod in. Fontainebleau, spent 15 days in heavy thought, and emerged with the sketches that formed the basis for the New Look. He explains: "We were leaving a period of war, of uniforms, of soldier-women with shoulders like boxers. I turned them into flowers, with soft shoulders, blooming bosoms, waists slim as vine stems, and skirts opening up like blossoms." More informally, he has admitted that the New Look was based on a glimpse "of the heaving hipline of a female Paris fishmonger...