Word: biarritzes
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From Park Avenue to Park Lane, the social season is coming to life again, and so is Hearst Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker. She has snapped out of her summer doldrums, and once more is writing wittily, tartly and occasionally tenderly about socialites as they close up their chateaux in Biarritz and their villas in Majorca to return to the comforts of London and New York. Suzy knows how to catch them on the run. "Princess Peggy d'Arenberg will be arriving from Paris to dip into the New York social season," she noted. "You all remember Traveling Peggy...
...teau de Mercuès, within easy distance of the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, lies 340 miles south of Paris on the main road to Biarritz and Spain. It overlooks the Lot River valley from a 400-ft.-high rocky escarpment that the Romans used as an armed camp. A medieval castle was built in the 11th century, became a British stronghold 400 years later. Behind the crenelations and conical towers are 24 rooms, half with bathrooms, ranging from $5 to $12, service included...
...arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged husband, Cinemactor Jacques Charrier, far off on the other side of Southern France, in Biarritz, where he had gone after their latest spat, jumped in a car to drive to her side. At week's end the aging "Sex Kitten" of French moviedom was recovering. Paris' deadly serious Le Monde, customarily oblivious to BB, accorded her a sort of ghoulish obituary-in-life...
...displaced Agatha Christie murder mystery which would have found its logical setting in an English country home on an English country week-end. Instead, the authors have chosen to borrow liberally from the journalism of Art Buchwald and Cleveland Amory and transport their characters to a combination of Biarritz and Capri. The resultant hybrid is not happy. Nor, sad to say, are the lines the participants are made to speak in their non-musical moments. The jokes, such as they are, represent the scum of dining room repartee, heavily reliant on puns about sex. The satirical moments succeed only once...
...story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little saga of puppy love quickly brought to an end by the boy's tutor. Nabokov's Dozen lacks Lolita's pun-prone pyrotechnics. But it shares with it Nabokov's fascinating gift for translating the machine-tooled commonplaces...