Word: cote
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Picassos--nine paintings, plus several dozen of the thousands of plates that the old demon gouged and scribbled into existence--are to be hung. The room is an expansive stage designer's version of a renovated Provencal farmhouse, only brand-new, and with touches not found on the Cote d'Azur, such as a carpet by Claude Picasso and a ceiling in the entrance hall thickly lined with broken amphorae brought in from Mexico. The paintings--still lifes from the '40s, and a lush little jewel of a head of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter--actually look terrific in here...
...secret society's flak. His opening gambit is to invite a reporter to a gathering of worldwide Masonic grand masters at the New York Grand Lodge. And the event is grandly international: 75 delegations in Masonic aprons of every color and design, Lebanese hobnobbing with Cote d'Ivoirans and multitudinous Brazilians, engaged for the first time (although the cabal-obsessed may dispute this) in establishing an international Masonic coordination. Still Feingold can't forgo bragging about the domestic organization. "Fourteen Presidents have been Masons," he says; "nine signers of the Declaration of Independence...
...meantime, what was not yet known as the media had enthusiastically taken up the science-fiction approach to the future. In 1910 an illustrator named Jean Marc Cote began a series of advertising cards depicting life in the year 2000: underwater croquet tournaments, men being shaved by robots, battery-powered roller skates. Later, Hugo Gernsback, who started out as a manufacturer of automotive batteries, launched the magazine Amazing Stories ("Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow"). It was endlessly imitated. A typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel...
...flying to Paris again this March for another HMCE. The group will no longer reside at the lovely Frantour, trading the city location for the more historic Sheraton a cote d'aeroport Roissy/Charles de Gaulle...
Well, that's all for now. See you in the Casbah or Key West or the Cote d'Azur...