Word: babar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mess around with Mother Irony, they tell one another now at the Café Babar. When the phone rings, no one wants to answer it. Although it is more than a year since Joe Troise and Bill Glanting and the others had their big idea, the caller is more than likely to be some reporter or talk-show crocodile wanting to know about the Dull Men's Club. Dullness had everyone excited there for a while, and it kept things jumping among the regulars at the café, a neighborhood beer-and-sandwich joint in San Francisco...
...instruments of the orchestra archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd-and as charming-as Babar the elephant enjoying the Comédie Françhise...
...Hite Report the other day, I ran smack into an old friend of mine from high school. Cheryl Stern seemed to my bulged eyes a new woman When last I had admired her comely self she had been a sweet kid in puffy sleeves with pastel flannel figures of Babar the Elephant and his wife Celeste sewn on as a running motif across the apron of her party dress. Now, svelte and shiny in her silk fishnet dress with a fishnet choker and fishnet stockings, she was quite a different item. She looked like a captive eel at the Fulton...
...Richard Kogan, fresh from his spectacular performance with the Bach Society, play the Kreutzer and Brahms's 3rd violin sonata at the Gardner Museum Sunday afternoon--but they'll be playing a similar concert next week at Sanders, closer to home. Also of special interest is Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, for piano and narrator, Saturday evening at Currier House...
...What was the name of the monkey in the Babar books...