Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vice Lord. Some 25,000 Vietnamese live in France, about 60% of them recent political refugees. Though their ranks include six ex-Premiers and hosts of other once-powerful men, their schemes to return to power are little more than stimulating cafe topics. Bao Dai, the French-sponsored Emperor of Viet Nam for 20 years, has all but forgotten the old days before he went into exile in 1954. Cold-shouldered by De Gaulle (the government no longer subsidizes him), Bao Dai is the guest of a count in Lorraine, spends his time hunting or visiting his concubine in Paris...
...Brilliance of His Brushes. Art as an expression of alienation from society is a concept that Manet would have found ridiculous. He thoroughly enjoyed the life of the race track and cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
...Lillet Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine and crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur), named for Canon Felix Kir, who also doubles...
...that sad, wispy novel about a girl's incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...