Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambitious as such fledgling U.S. enterprises are, they barely hold a candle to the soaring prices now being fetched in Paris. An edition of 197 copies of Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyages Fantastiques, illustrated by Bernard Buffet, recently sold out within 48 hours at prices up to $15,500. More ambitious yet was Don Quichotte illustrated by Salvador Dali with "divine splashes" from an ink-filled snail shell. For the regular edition, Publisher Joseph Foret set the price at a mere $300 a copy. But one copy, billed as "the most expensive book in the world," was tagged...
...think Buffet's portrait is a masterpiece of art. It embodies the spirit of De Gaulle as a cold and impassionate leader of the French people. De Gaulle seems to hide behind a solid granite-like facade of militarism. I would not be surprised if a very warm heart beats beneath the somber appearance...
Married. Bernard Buffet, 30, French painter whose spare depictions of hopelessness have made him a young millionaire in postwar France; and Annabel May Schwob de Lure, 30, model-singer-writer; in Ramatuelle, France...
Shortly after six, two Scholars carry into the room a bottle of sherry each; some 45 minutes later, dinner is served buffet style by the cooks of the Torch Club, which gives up its room for these bi-weekly affairs...
...sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service's Oven-Hot Foods and Cold Buffet machines, which heat frozen dishes, provide either hot plates or cold for less than $1 (installed free for offices with a staff of 300 or more...