Word: bistros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-publicized exception to dignified behavior, an invasion of all-male drinking territory, washed out completely. When four female journalists plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...
...Paris Correspondent George Taber, it was a routine background lunch. Assigned to keep a running watch on events in Portugal, Taber talked politics in a Right Bank bistro with Mário Soares, an obscure exile who was teaching Portuguese and history at a French university. Since that meeting a year and a half ago, Soares has returned home to lead Portugal's powerful Socialist Party, and Taber has visited Lisbon several times to report on "the Revolution of the Flowers" (named for the red carnations that symbolized the Armed Forces Movement...
...rooms of all American guests. For the first time, at the Fête du Louvre, programs for the Paris Opera Ballet wer available in English. Some European hoteliers suggest to guests that they can have a picnic lunch à la Manet for fa less than a bistro meal à la carte. Fo their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner abroad who demanded his bill in "real money." "They argue over checks less often," says Jean Bruel, owner of Bateaux Mouches, the famed sightseeing boats in Paris. "The; now ask you if you speak English...
Military officials do not dispute the legitimacy of the soldiers' complaints. Before last week's pay raise, the 220,000 conscripts in the 338,000-man army were the lowest salaried troops in Western Europe; they could barely afford a daily beer at the local bistro. Nearly 90% of their barracks were constructed at or before the start of the century. At Evreux, soldiers of the 41st Communications Regiment have no hot water in their quarters, must trudge to a separate building for frequently nonfunctioning showers and shiver through winter reveilles because the ancient coal furnace...
After two years of a dying President who kept himself secluded from the public, the French suddenly found Giscard everywhere. He went to a movie with his daughter, took his son to dinner at a small bistro in Les Halles, slipped out of the Elysée Palace ("this prison with its faded gilt," he calls it) to drive his own car to a play. He cut the palace guard from 190 to 120 and added potted orange trees in the courtyard. Instead of the usual beribboned official portrait, he settled for a simple pose in a business suit. More...