Word: azure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim was located in Antibes. The Murphys arrived in France with three toddling children in 1921. Cole Porter introduced them to the Côte d'Azur, then unheard of as a summer resort. Delighted with it, the Murphys purchased a house they named Villa America and cleared a stretch of beach called La Garoupe. Gerald painted huge, careful canvases that are fascinating precursors of Pop art. But both the Murphys were more interested in a life of quality and beauty than in art. "The Divers' day," as Fitzgerald translated it in Tender Is the Night, "was spaced...
German Actor Curt Jurgens can enjoy a good many of life's pleasures at his house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there...
Pouring huge cups of tea with honey at his villa on the Côte d'Azur, the 30-year-old painter, sculptor and ceramicist-who was born in 1881-winked at his guest of honor, Italian Movie Actress Lucia Bose. Her child, Paola, whose father is Spain's retired superstar of the corrida, Luis Miguel Dominguín, is Picasso's goddaughter, and Lucia's presence, quite obviously, put him in an expansive mood. Why, someone asked, do the peaceful doves for which he is so famous never have any feet? Because, said Picasso...
When the prosecutor's recommendation was announced last week, Niarchos was aboard his black-hulled schooner Creole off the Côte d'Azur. Once again, Niarchos protested that Eugenie's death had been a simple suicide. "There is, alas, only a single sad truth," he told reporters. "All witnesses agree." Niarchos can only hope that the magistrates agree...
...revolutionaries, who are estimated to number only about 2,000 in all of France, have been relatively inactive on the Cóte d'Azur so far. There was no solid evidence of a connection between the Maoists and a rash of forest fires that broke out along the full length of the Riviera last week. Nonetheless, a number of resort owners met at Cannes to form a security force. In addition, Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin reinforced his riot police at the major resorts. His aim, he says, is to turn the Maoists' hot summer into "a cold...