Word: fontainebleau
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...initial burst of curiosity tune-in, predicts Gene DeWitt, president of a New York City media management firm, the audience will drift back to Leno. "CBS's audience seems to skew a bit older ((than Letterman's)). It's kind of like putting a SoHo comedian into the Fontainebleau hotel...
...philanderer's nightmare unfolds in all its gruesome comedy. Rich, handsome Simon Longworth sneaks away to Paris for a weekend with his secretary. They are swanning around Fontainebleau when they encounter his wife's two best friends, both of whom believe that the Longworths, alone among their acquaintances, have a happy marriage. Can Simon, experienced lecher that he is, handle this? Certainly not. Rushing toward doom, he reasons that if he has managed to pull the wool over his wife Richeldis' eyes for 20 years, why not try to convince Monica and Belinda that they are blind...
...National d'Art Moderne, whose 20th century collections had already been siphoned off into the Centre Pompidou. Major sculptures, including Rodin's original plasters, came from the Rodin museum in Paris; others were recovered from obscurity in warehouses where they had languished unseen since before World War II. Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Ceramics at Sevres surrendered their treasures. Bequests given long ago to the state on condition that they be shown intact -- the collections of Gachet, Chauchard, Kaganovitch, Personnaz and others -- were also folded into Orsay. In all, the museum's holdings comprise...
...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
...from Clarkston, Mich., as she sips a drink on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. In the four days since she arrived with a group of 35 students and teachers, she has done Chartres, the Loire valley chateaux, a champagne cellar near Reims, and the Eiffel Tower. Still ahead: the Louvre, Fontainebleau and a ballet...