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...Independence Day, August 7, the sous-prefet held a buffet dinner for all the important people in town. Everyone showed up in his best, either a suit or an ornate robe, and chatted pleasantly or danced during cocktails. Then a servant came out to announce that dinner was ready, and instantly the place was transformed. People jammed through the door, shoving each other out of the way to get in, shoveling enough food onto their plates to last the week. Last man got nothing...
Chandler favors loud colors, even garish ones, and sometimes employs intentionally rough and unsubtle comic-strip techniques. His broad-stroke work often recalls Rouault. He himself especially admires and acknowledges the influence of Picasso, Rivera, Braque, Beckmann, Buffet, and the Negro muralist Charles White...
After the movie, buffet supper is served in the bunny dining room. "Hef" (nicknames abound) and Mary chat for awhile, then stroll off to his private quarters. These include a duplex of offices, living room, bedroom (an adjoining room serves as a TV taping studio), all ankle-deep in white carpet. Once Hef has retired, his guests may amuse themselves as they see fit. The top floor of the house, used as a bunny dormitory by the Chicago Playboy club, is off limits. Very much available, however, is the heated, kidney-shaped first-floor swimming pool (bathing suits, if desired...
...Françoise is right when she insists that she really is not a singer of unusual gifts or an actress at all. "The only time I'm good," she says, "is when I'm playing myself." But what an ineffable presence that self is. Painter Bernard Buffet saw her on TV in 1962 and immediately told his wife: "This girl is Electra in a black raincoat. Tomorrow all the French girls will want to look like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case, the Olympia Music Hall (where Fran...
...Little Allergic. Next day, sportily attired in mustard slacks, matching shirt and yellow canvas shoes, Romney drove in an American Motors Rambler to Rocky's cottage for a buffet lunch. By the time the meal was over, the two Governors had achieved a consensus, so to speak, on consensus. "It was an apparent and not a real difference," Romney told reporters on the broad green lawn fronting the cottage. "Personally, I would not have chosen the word consensus.* I was just a little allergic to the previous association of the word. But I agree the Governors should reach...