Word: bistro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...station, instead of being decorated for valor, Lemmon is fired: the chief inspector had been caught in the raid. Creeping sheepishly back to Les Halles, Jack gets an I-told-you-so from Moustache (Lou Jacobi), a philosophical bistro keeper: "To be overly honest in a dishonest world is like plucking a chicken against the wind: you'll end up with a mouthful of feathers...
...show up at work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable Colony restaurant, tops during the Republican Eisenhower Administration, went broke and has closed...
...wishes he could do the same, Vivien Leigh divertingly peps up the proceedings. She shimmies a madcap Charleston that ought to be recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch the shoddy show goods...
...Bistro...
Each of the four scenes ("Playing Cards," and "The Bistro," "The Cocktail Party," and "The Graveyard") comes off better than the last. The staging and light-effects, especially for the "Bistro" and the "Graveyard" are delightful...