Word: left-bank
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Spared the thorough destruction suffered by left-bank Warsaw in WW II, the area has preserved the 19th and early 20th century buildings not found elsewhere in the Polish capital. Under communism, it became home to the poorest of the poor, and its petty crime scared off most Varsovians...
...every Western European country has adopted similar, if not more stringent, policies. The British banned the hoary pastime of Sir John Walter Raleigh last July; smoking indoors now carries fines of ?600 for the offending party, and twice that for the publican. The formerly indomitable French, for whom smoky left-bank cafés and ennui are cultural staples, will follow suit beginning January 1, 2008. And cannabis-fans in the once surreally tolerant Netherlands will have to take their joints down to the banks of the canals and out of the world-famous coffee houses by next July...
...this does not make me a coldhearted nihilist without connection to home and hearth, or an American-hating liberal that only wants to get drunk in left-bank cafés and undermine Christian values. The U.S. as a country may leave me uninspired, but I think fondly and even nostalgically of my family and friends, my favorite sport teams, my suburban town, my happy childhood. It will always be the country I love, my country, because it is for better or worse entangled with me. More important than it’s being the “land...
...cafes, students converse in rapid "left-bank" slang. Shops sell French clothes and business is conducted in French. Advertisements for French cigarettes and the names of long-defunct French businesses peer through hastily painted revolutionary slogans. The green and white National Liberation Front (FLN) flag flaps somewhat ludicrously against the imposing porticos of old colonial administration buildings. First inspection suggests that Algiers is an occupied city--a French city occupied by Algerians. This is not surprising in light of the fact that the French ruled Algeria for over 100 years. However, it is surprising that 14 years after an extremely...
...directly from nature. When his money ran out, he went to Casablanca, signed up as a paint spray-gun operator, working side by side with Moroccan laborers at U.S. air bases. Back in Paris with money in his pocket, he found himself elected chairman of a group of fellow Left-Bank expatriates who staged their own exhibition when French sponsors backed out (TIME...