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Word: faubourgs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some scenes, like a blue-lit stroll down the Faubourg, like a dance-hall in which two silk-swathed women dance a drunken, passionate tango, like an amphitheatre-like hospital for the mentally ill where the whiteness of the walls is relieved only by the paleness of pallid flesh, are demonically spell-binding. In fact, the succession of images-a giant stone head of Mussolini dragged across a bridge by two motorcycles, the fire-lit nude body of a homosexual eating dead cats amid the ruins of the Forum, Trintignant's eyes-recalls Fellini Satyricon in their bizarre intensity...

Author: By Martin H. Kaplan, | Title: The New York Film Festival Twelve Nights in a Dark Room: You Can't Always Get What You Want | 9/29/1970 | See Source »

...Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is like as a private person is irrelevant; as a public personage she has become for many people a colossal bore. Jackie with hemline up. Jackie with hemline down. Jackie and Ari at Maxim's. Jackie shopping on the Via Gregoriana, the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, Madison Avenue. What could be more tiresome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DOING THEIR TIRESOME THING | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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