Word: boleros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOLEDO. Spanish Chef Francisco Gon zalez from Madrid's Jockey Club turns out fine food (sea bass in parchment, tournedos, partridges with grapes of Almeria). Like the rest of the Spanish pavilion, the decor is elegant, and there is a small armada of trim, bolero-jacketed waiters. $5-$25. The pavilion's No. 2 restaurant, the Granada, serves an all-Spanish menu that features cold gazpacho soup, paella, sangria (red wine with soda) at slightly lower prices than the Toledo...
Side One swings around the Far East. Nippon Bashi, one of three songs representing Japan, exploits the Glee Club's ability to get louder very slowly and gradually, over a long period of time--a sort of basso "Bolero." The Club stops (musically) in Korea, China, The Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with...
...girl in slacks is hardly worth a third look, but on the French Riviera last week, slacks were causing a sensation. Reason: the latest style, launched by Claire Vachon, the Riviera's high priestess of beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...