Word: adieu
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...husband in luxurious idleness. Soon these shoddy-chic cadgers, the pure, unworldly young lady and the three hired attendants are caught up with the young man in an Anouilhan dance of masks and mummery, of virginal love and veteran hate, pouncing as they pirouette, conspiring as they bid adieu...
...news from the tabloid Paris-Jour, which published a scoop that Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot will end her movie career within a year. "I've had enough of the life I'm leading," Paris-Jour had BB saying. "I'm 25 years old. In ten more years, adieu to youth. So I want to enjoy it a little and say adieu to the cinema and practice the profession I like best in the world." Breathless readers then learned that Brigitte's favorite profession is one of the world's oldest: selling antiques. Next day BB called...
...fail in June (65%) get another chance in September; those who fail then (80%) stay at school another year. Notable first-round failures: Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Gide, Franchise Sagan. Though some brave bachot bumblers repeat the year as many as six times, others (like Gide) bid adieu to formal education forever. One result: only 409 French youths per 100,000 population attend college, as compared to 1,950 in the U.S.-an alarming statistic in a classical-bent France yearning for scientific and technological power...
...McNeill Whistler remembered Rome as "a bit of an old ruin alongside of a railway station where I saw Mrs. Potter Palmer." But her picture-crammed castle ("English Gothic of the square-headed variety") on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago was Mrs. Palmer's favorite seat. "Adieu" she would tell friends in Paris. "I must go back to Chicago to give the Charity Ball...
...nightly orgy of stargazing from the roof of his Parisian town house. More concierge than wife, Mme. Héristal rations out new telescopes with a parsimonious hand. Daughter Clotilde, 20, is addicted to Hollywood horse operas and has already Saganalyzed her life in a bestseller written at 15, Adieu...