Word: bon
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...words in Spanish. A schoolroom scene has le General lecturing to a group of rigid students, and the text relates: "When he presides over the Ministers' Council, everybody is of his opinion." The book slyly reports that De Gaulle "bought his two general's stars at the Bon Marche"-a sort of Prisian Macy's. And it goes behind the scenes at the Elysee Palace to show that "after dinner, the general and Yvonne watch television;" sketched on the television screen is a buxom young lady wearing a sweater emblazoned with...
...could they all squeeze into that small, three-bedroom villa? Yet there were Britain's Lord Harlech, three of his five children, plus a dozen or so friends, on holiday at El Mansoura, a fishing village on Tunisia's Cape Bon. At one point, there were 17 for dinner, and the kids mostly slept on air mattresses on the veranda. No matter. The nights were velvet, the days filled with swimming and trips to the village markets. Harlech spent much of his time reading and lounging around in a loose-fitting djibbah, blessedly free of reporters. When...
Senior designer and the man responsible for eight of the firm's 13 top A.I.A. awards is Gordon Bunshaft, 59, whom Owings calls "the great classicist." Shock-haired and explosive, a bon vivant and art lover, "Bun" set the firm on the high road to quality with Lever House, most recently has turned out the Hirshhorn Gallery for Washington, and the L.B.J. library for Austin, Texas. Notably outspoken, he has been known to tell a client: "Take it all or nothing." In Chicago, Walter Netsch, 48, is dubbed "the professor" by Owings. Research-oriented, he appeals especially to institutions, designed...
...game, says the author is "What Is Everybody Else Doing?" For only when the player knows what the crowd is thinking can he stay ahead. Chartists, mathematicians, statisticians, computers and dart throwers all get a chance to show their stuff under his skeptical gaze. Drawing from Gustave le Bon's 1895 book The Crowd, he views the investing public as a highly volatile and irrational mass mind that usually overreacts and does the wrong thing. Yet Smith/Goodman is neither dogmatist nor snob, as evidenced by his parody of Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about...
...attractive, wealthy intellectual and bon vivant who zips around in a Mercedes 300 SL sports car and goes in for strenuous sports (skin diving, skiing, brown belt in judo). He favors a far-out wardrobe that includes pastel shirts, trilby hats and green leather overcoats. He is a bachelor, and his fondness for pretty women is no secret. Considering these attributes, the last thing one would expect him to be is a politician, especially in Canada. Yet that is Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most recent profession. At 46, after only three years in Parliament and one year as Minister...