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...lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man," Hemingway once wrote, "then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." In my case, the moveable feast was spread at the crossroads outside Paris' oldest church, the 6th century shrine of St. Germain-des-Pres. Baron Haussmann cut a boulevard through here during the Second Empire, and in came what memory still rates as the three best cafes in Paris, and thus the world. The first was the Flore (1865), celebrated as the headquarters of existentialism...
...that Djuna Barnes set several scenes in Nightwood here. In fact, when the proprietor was once asked what she remembered of Barnes, she said she had never heard of her. But the two coupes of icy Pommery tasted grand. Hemingway was right: Paris is much changed, but the moveable feast can still be celebrated...
Hemingway and Joyce wrote there; impressionism sprang to life there; Robespierre and Lenin plotted there. Where? In the grand and glorious old Parisian cafes, bien sur. The times may have changed, but the moveable feast continues...
...FEAST OF FOOLS. Clowning through the centuries, British-born Geoff Hoyle is by turns a medieval jester, a fly-eating Arlecchino and two dueling waiters. | Imaginative and skillful physically, if a bit labored verbally, Hoyle peaks in an inspired bit of off-Broadway lunacy proving that, when it comes to dancing, three legs are better than...
...landscape, raises one blue finger to its lips to demand tranquillity with an inaudible "Shhh!" The etching titled New York Times, 1974, shows square-headed city folk blown about by the wind as they clutch copies of their favorite paper. Other images add a message to the mirth. The Feast, 1983, packs a chilling political punch: a skull-headed figure sits at a table munching on a sardine-like snack that turns out to be a plateful of missiles...