Word: garcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backed by a seven-man jazz combo, Singer Montand could demolish the hipster with a shuddering shimmy in Le Fanatique de Jazz or evoke the world of the provincial music hall in Un Garcon Dansait with a frozen smile and agitated feet. The display of vocal and athletic virtuosity lasted through 20 numbers (during which Montand sweated off two pounds), and at the end the audience was shouting for more...
...fled to the Patisserie Cafe Morceau. It was warm there too; though the sky was apple green, the pastries were aging but good. I loved to see Peter's strong teeth clamping down over them, demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there...