Word: bistro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes Reisner lectures on graffiti in history, from Pompeii to frontier America, or examines ways in which graffiti illuminate social or political frustrations. But more often the class will repair to a nearby bistro for a firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti...
...With support from leftists and independent deputies, Mitterrand hopes to persuade the National Assembly to repeal it. His chances are only fair, and meantime Frenchmen must watch themselves. Aimed at ever more ridiculous targets, the 87-year-old law was recently invoked to arrest a diner at a provincial bistro for drawing a caricature of De Gaulle on a tablecloth, an amateur ceramist for portraving him on an ashtray, a drunk for criticizing him in a bar, and an unsuspecting man in the street for shouting "Hou! Hou! (Boo! Boo!)" at a passing presidential motorcade...
...father and mother got there in time, but his brother couldn't. Still, Jackie Kennedy was on hand with Caroline; so were Poet Marianne Moore, Novelists Philip Roth, William Styron, Terry Southern and about 30 other chums. Then everybody raced off to a little Second Avenue bistro for supper. Honeymoon? Later, baby. George headed for Indiana to campaign for Bobby...
...crawling his way around Manhattan one evening last May, a burly Bronx meter reader named Steve Callinan dropped into a bistro and spotted Raven Novie, 21, a statuesque blonde receptionist who was dining with her equally fetching cousin. "Wannadrink, girls?" Callinan pressed. When they rebuffed him, Raven said, he spewed assorted four-letter words; the manager ordered him away, and he retreated to the bar. As the girls were leaving, Raven claimed, Callinan threatened her with fists as well as words...
Uncle Ho's. In Paris the exiles can gather in any one of some 200 Vietnamese chop-chop houses, ranging from a Communist bistro called Uncle Ho's, to a hangout called the Gathering Place of the Wise Men, which, like the others, reeks with the home flavor of nuoc mam, the fish sauce used on most Vietnamese dishes. More than half the men are married to French women, many hold French citizenship, few seem inclined to return to Asia. "They have their families here and are safe from the horrors of war," says a former Ambassador...