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Ahmed serves Moroccan food to duelling ayatollahs, but less wealthy types frequent the Hungry Persian on Eliot St.-inexpensive, good Middle Eastern food. Sophia Loren stuffs herself with Formaggio's thick and creamy sandwiches in the Garage, (boursin and roast beef on homemade bread and their chocolate chip cookies are perennial favorites) while Suzanne Somers gets her cheesecake from Rowinsky's on Mt.Auburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Sipping beers and Dubonnet, listening to Swing-era music, and munching on Boursin and crackers, they lined the baseball field parking area "in normal numbers, for a game like this," according to a parking attendant...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: It Was a Home Opener With a Twist: Harvard Outnumbered in the Stands | 9/18/1976 | See Source »

Bargain Rates. The only commercials they saw were two minutes of spots sandwiched between a soap opera and the evening weather report. In one, a pajama-clad comedian leaped from bed and dashed after his passion: garlic-flavored Boursin cheese. In another, three puppies tumbled out of a sweater worn by a curvy brunette, ostensibly proving that her "Tricot Bel" pullover snapped right back .into shape. Other commercials touted the virtues of Virlux butter, Schneider TV sets and Regilait powdered milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: And Now, a Word for Cheese | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...them in awkward, innocent postures, when they let down their shields of glamor. Women for Bonnard were his wife, Marthe de Meligny, a cute midinette he met when he was 28. When they were married 30 years later, he found out that she was not aristocratic, only plain Maria Boursin, but his love never left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Distant Witness | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...decided to act. In his small studio he took out a sheet of his fine drawing paper, wrote: "I name Pierre Bonnard my sole legatee," and signed it with the name of Maria Boursin. But he was so inept a scoundrel that he dated the will on the day he wrote it-ten months after Marthe's death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pierre & Marthe | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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