Word: indiffer
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...longer need tourists humble themselves before la grande indifférence that Parisians traditionally inflict on visitors. By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance...
...banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave-girl's lover; L'Indifférent subtly describes a handsome stranger who bypasses some unspecified hospitality...
...second floor of the Louvre Museum in Paris a young Russian artist named Serge Bogousslavsky sketched industriously while guards wandered about the halls. Each day, unnoticed, he frayed and broke one strand of the wire upholding a tiny masterpiece-valued from $80,000 up-by Antoine Watteau: L' Indifférent. On the 18th day after lunch a guard walked into the room and stared (TIME, June 26). L'Indifférent and Russian were both gone...
...Lisa vanished in 1911, a new confidence game flourished for a while: selling the "genuine" Mona Lisa to rich suckers who were unable to squawk when they found themselves stuck with copies instead of stolen goods. French police last week expected the same thing to happen with L'Indifférent, put a close watch on dubious picture dealers, airports and trains. The Mona Lisa was gone for two years before they found her in the thief's home in Florence...
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