Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory of life as a bawdy house where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Engaged in ballyhoo for a French travel magazine, the two rising young Americans rose to about 13,000 ft., sailing a 72-ft. hot-air balloon across the English Channel in 3 hr. 45 min. Climbing out of the gondola, young Piccard, son of Balloonist Jean Felix Piccard, who died this year, and nephew of the late air-sea Explorer Auguste Piccard (inventor of the deep-diving bathyscaph), seemed to the manner born. Said he: "It was a perfect trip...
...Leftist Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, whose weekly L'Express has been having its own circulation troubles since the end of the Algerian war deprived it of its major issue, doubts that any of these measures will halt the downtrend. The problem, says he, is neither TV, nor slanted reporting, nor a glut of papers, but the fact that Charles de Gaulle has hobbled political parties. "Gaullist France is not interested in national affairs," said Servan-Schreiber, a longtime anti-Gaul-list, who might have a telling point here. "People know that De Gaulle makes his own decisions...
...Between Verses." According to Jean Sergent, director of the Victor Hugo House, the great man himself was partly to blame for his neglect as an artist. Being at the top of French letters, he could not bear to be of lesser rank in any other field, and so he gave the impression that his art was a mere bagatelle to occupy his spare time. The drawings, he said, were "pen scratchings" that he turned out "between verses, during moments of reverie, and almost unconsciously with what ink remained...
Desert Sprinkle. Two parties of foreigners reached the entrance to the Siq one day last week, eager to journey the remaining three miles to Petra. The first was a group of 23 Frenchwomen making a Holy Land pilgrimage under the tutelage of a Parisian priest, Abbé Jean Steinmann, 52, vicar of Notre Dame:* the second was a larger group of Italian pilgrims. The French party gaily entered the Siq gorge just as a sprinkle of rain began to fall. Four were traveling in a Land-Rover, the rest on foot...