Word: caf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents as "the Isle of Beauty," the involuntary vacationers found themselves ensconced in resort hotels opened, by police order, a month before the normal tourist season. In their dark suits and berets, playing cards, smoking, engaging in the familiar polemic dialogues of expatriates, they transformed a cheerful, terraced Mediterranean café into the atmosphere of a coffeehouse in Bucharest. The internees' expenses were paid by the government; much of the time the weather was warm enough for swimming; and in Porto, one fatherly gendarme captain even saw to it that a group of interned students kept up with their...
...Edward Behr-who arrived in Algiers on the eve of the insurrection after a month-long motor expedition across the Sahara-White supplied this week's Foreign News section with its muscular narrative of Algiers at the barricades and its vivid portraits of the ex-law student, tough café owner and religious fanatic who have defied the power of Charles de Gaulle. Taken together with the intimate account of the heart searchings of De Gaulle's government supplied by Paris Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and Godfrey Blunden, the result is a comprehensive assessment of a week in which...
...second null to make room for frantic conflicting accounts of the Bardot issue: 'Blue eyes and black hair" (Le Figaro). 'blue eyes and brown hair" (Paris-Presse), 'brown hair and yellow eyes" (Brigitte's secretary). Afterward, as the spent corps converged on the Royal Passy Café near Brigitte's home, where Papa Charrier was serving champagne, two newsmen collapsed from exhaustion and someone poured beer over their heads. With cruel disregard for the photographers who had camped on her doorstep so long, Brigitte waited two days and then handed out four pictures of herself...
...Dominique Vivant Denon. about a well-to-do young wife (Jeanne Moreau) in a small provincial town. Her publisher husband (Alain Cuny) spends most of his time putting the paper to bed. So the wife visits friends in Paris, drifts into a well-why-not affair with a cafè-society type (José-Luis de Villalonga). Suspicious, the husband invites the lover home one weekend and plays a sneaky, overcivilized game of cat and mouse with the guilty pair...