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...Matthieu Degeorges and Samirah Salmi, both 33, film-set designers Our perfect day starts with fresh-squeezed orange juice and great coffee at the Brébant Café, tel: (33-1) 4770 0102. Then, we'd get on our bicycles and pedal to the Marché des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered market in Paris, for the organic produce, delicatessens and wine merchants. After lunch, we might hit the vintage-clothing stores Oh Lumière, tel: (33-1) 4357 5126, for vintage sneakers and the like, and Doursoux, tel: (33-1) 4700 0182, a classy military-surplus store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Perfect Day in ... Paris | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Without a Sou. At the time of the adventure, Malraux was a 22-year-old cubist poet. He and Clara were very broke, following a highly unartistic attempt to make a killing on the Bourse. Intrigued by archaeology, especially by a little-known Cambodian temple called Bantéay Srei on the way to Angkor Vat, Malraux got permission from the French colonial administration to explore. Off they went first-class-without a sou for the return trip. When they finally found Banteay Srei, says Clara, "It was a kind of Trianon in the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Far Out to Jail | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

Other reasons given for Fuad's presence were that he had come to see a doctor, to bant, to escape Egypt's summer heat, to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Clouds | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...answer these random queries and perhaps aid ambitious chefs, several statisticians have made a real contribution to "Hotel Management". Questionnaires sent to many artistic celebrities show that regardless of medical opinions, in the temperamental professions, the advocates of a hearty breakfast divide the honors with those who "bant" (society term, "to reduce"). Robert Cortes Holiday likes "steak and fried potatoes"; August Heckscher fasts till noon. Galli Curci "regards it of prime importance not to eat too much", while Elsie Janis "just loves a good substantial breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER YOUR COFFEE | 3/19/1923 | See Source »

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