Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state. A concordat with the Vatican, he suggested, could limit...
...rush hour. Some fashion writers found Coco's long-skirted, severely tailored designs "tacky." A plain navy suit was modeled, wrote one, "by a brunette mannequin who was with Chanel 20 years ago. In the respectful silence you could almost hear the jaws dropping." The writer for Le Figaro observed: "It was touching; one might have thought oneself back in 1925." But in the midst of all the scratching and meowing, one U.S. fashion expert detected a careful hedge: "The buyers are buying...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 4 p.m., NBC). Acts III and IV of The Marriage of Figaro...
...Although the Figaro performance got good notices, the Met had a pretty rough week. Critic Virgil Thomson of the Herald Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...
...Marriage of Figaro...