Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting outside the famed Rotonde café in Montparnasse in 1921, the late Abstract Painter Fernand Léger spied what he described as "an extraordinary mobile object" bicycling alone, dressed in clergyman's black and a derby hat. Wrote the painter: "He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective." It was Le Corbusier...
Somewhere in the South, a Negro seats himself in a newly integrated café. "Do you have any collard greens?" he asks the waitress. "Do you have any pigs' feet or pigs' tails? Do you have any mustard greens and corn bread?" To each question, the answer is no. "Well," says the Negro, "you folks aren't ready for integration...
Though Pleiku was open for the moment, the peril in the highlands was hardly diminished. The next likely pressure point in the Viet Cong's plateau push is Kontum, once a pleasant mountain village of open-air cafés with circus awnings and a population of 14,000. Though only 30 miles from Pleiku, Kontum is surrounded by some 6,000 guerrillas backed up by an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and is still accessible only by airlift, as is nearby Ban Me Thuot. If the Viet Cong attack, as seems almost certain, Kontum's fate...
Dunn dazzled Broadway a year and a half ago with a bravura performance as Cousin Lymon in Edward Albee's adaptation of Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Café. He spat Henry Miller-authored obscenities in the 1963 Spoleto Festival production of Just Wild About Harry. He plays Karl Glocken in the film version of Ship of Fools, which premières this week. He is the comic-villain Mr. Big in an early episode of Get Smart, a promising new TV series due in September. And just to prove that acting...
...Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made for Evgeny), doing a "slow twist" at the Club 84, and closing the swank Café de Paris at 3:30 a.m. Gossips buzzed that the poet was resuming a romance. "No, we are only old friends," said she. "He's aged a lot-life hasn't been easy for him these past two years...