Word: azure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London, who spent her life as one of Britain's most energetic social-work volunteers until two years ago, when she and her husband left England for good to escape Britain's heavy death duties; after a long illness; at their Côte d'Azur villa in Pégomas, France...
...York 13 years ago, and just to be a little different, ended up scheduling it for October. But 1,300 Manhattan socialites, who paid $150 a ticket, made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue...
...officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...
...have for years sought their scenery abroad. But television, content to develop its talent for staging the eruption of Vesuvius in a studio closet, has rarely ventured far afield. Next season, viewers will see a brave pioneer bust out of the closet onto the Còte d'Azur and points north. The pioneer: a hammy comedy serial about an American nightclub act in Europe titled Harry's Girls (NBC), which is filming 13 of its 26 half-hour shows on the French Riviera...
...builder is Paris's Flemish-French Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (pronounced Mag), who had long owned a wooded hilltop a mile from Saint-Paul-de-Vence, on the Cóte d'Azur, a perfect site for a museum. He consulted assorted architects, who suggested amusing and cavalier plans for a subterranean museum or one soaring on stilts, but he eventually chose Sert. For consultants he enlisted artists whose works he sells: Braque, Chagall, Miró and Giacometti...