Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashionable Saint-Tropez, where BB and other international types gather to bask at one another, the quais and cafés are aflash with the new rage-in slacks of solid greens, reds and pinks, paired with multicolored boleros. While the BB look holds considerable dangers for anyone above a size 10, most of the girls have done Madame Vachon credit-proving once again that it matters not how much shows but quelque chose...
...first novel is published and while his writing has acquired only a few affectations, his interests appear to have grown soggy with much sitting around sloppy café tables . . . Experts may proclaim this book a masterpiece of sex-frustration psychology...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's brilliant, flawed examination-part sermon, part satire-of Rome's café society...
Died. John Perona, 64, improbable arbiter of international café society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...from subject matter, the futurists depended on subjects as their springboard. Gino Severini prized abstract, rhythmic forms that could evoke associations involving all the senses. His Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin (see color) is a jumbled panorama of twirling skirts, a laughing face, the monocle of an aristocratic cafégoer, hints of music and noise through words ("valse," "polka," "bowling...