Word: figaro
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...course, I could have pointed out to my friends that the statistics quoted in the Times--they included figures on frequency of deodorant application, underwear changing and hand washing that I would just as soon not go into in detail--had been put together by a French newspaper, Le Figaro. I could have added that hard on the heels of the Times story I saw a Reuters item about Metro officials having spent five years developing a new fragrance designed to dress up the aroma of Paris subway stations...
...other words, the French are aware that a problem exists. So, significantly, are the English. The Times of London responded to the Figaro statistics with the headline IT'S TRUE: THE FRENCH REALLY ARE THE SMELLIEST IN EUROPE. But are they? I know people, some of them holders of British passports, who insist that upper-class English are the filthiest people on earth. In England, there's an old story about the astounded response of the president of an Oxford college whose students, in a past less distant than you may think, asked for the installation of bathtubs: "Bathtubs! Bathtubs...
...Gill appeared as the Count in the Leverett House Opera's The Marriage of Figaro. The production--"the most charming I have ever been a part of," Gill beams--was organized by the student-directoral team of John Lithgow '67 and John C. Adams...
...Crimson review of Figaro was quite positive...
FRANCE "...Americans ought to elect a Pope instead of a President. --Editorial, Le Figaro...