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...starts to laugh and becomes a kid on a spree. Normally, Carmen, the elder daughter of one of Spain's greatest matadors, Antonio Ordóñez, is as poised as an infanta. Descended on both sides from bullfighters, she is an elegant young woman with a simpler joie de vivre than her contemporaries in such racy cities as London and New York. She is happy minding her 15-month-old son or supporting her husband Francisco de Rivera, also a matador, when he puts on his suit of lights to go out and fight-not so much...
Initially reggae was earthy, sexually explicit and abounding in joie de vivre: "Work with me, Annie, let's get it while the gittin' is good," a typical reggae began. While reggae retains a core of sensuality and haunting folk wisdom ("I can see clearly now that the rain must fall..."), the theme of today's reggae is emphatically one of social protest. It is often menacing, as in the Wailers' new single, Slave Driver...
...streetwalkers walking the streets of Marseille last week. Instead of accosting potential customers with the traditional invitation "Tu viens, chéri?" (Coming, darling?), the city's prostitutes were busy holding press conferences, leading demonstrations, and passing out pamphlets in support of a strike by the filles de joie...
...hitched a ride there one day with a French pilot-one of a bunch with great joie devivre who never took off without their morning coffee and cognac. A big sign with a picture of Mickey Mouse holding a rifle stood in the center of town. It pointed left to Paris (12,672 kilometers) and right to Peking (2,971 kilometers). Past that sign came an unending stream of peasants trudging back to China after selling their farm produce in the markets. The French were convinced that the Chinese peasants were smuggling in weapons, but were unable to stop...
Like De Gaulle, Maurice Chevalier was a French legend, but one inspiring love not awe; a legend in his own time-for half a century he was the best-known French entertainer on either side of the Atlantic. For Americans, Chevalier was synonymous with Gay Paree-joie de vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner...