Word: les
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerns. He wants to race a car some day at Le Mans; he also would like to break the world speed record (109.14 m.p.h.) on skis. But first, after those long, monastic months of training, he has some catching up to do. With what? "Fun," he says simply, "and les petites jeunes filles...
Although many Western European governments, most notably the French, have been saying that Washington must take stern action against the balance of payments deficit, they could only be taken aback at the extent of what Paris' Les Echos called Johnson's "anti-Marshall Plan." The cut off of dollars will curtail industrial expansion on the Continent by forcing interest rates up (Eurodollar bond-yield rates climbed 1%, to 7.2%, last week). Declining tourism and tougher competition from U.S. exporters are considered likely to depress business revenues. Italy expects the U.S. controls to tip its precarious balance of payments...
...number of women are publishing too: Edna O'Brien (The Lonely Girl) will crank out yet another book about Kate and Baba-now married, unhappily of course. Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images is about a lady executive who of course becomes disenchanted with comfort, possessions and conventional life. Brigid Brophy and Pamela Hansford Johnson are both writing about modern London; Brigid's is comic, Pamela's serious...
...once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...
...once fashioned a piece in which a couple stood stock-still for four minutes. But in Taylor's Lento, one of the new pieces of his company's current season, his dancers weave gentle patterns to Haydn chamber music, as simple and charming as any moment from Les Sylphides. Another new work, called Agathe's Tale, commits an even stranger breach of experimentalist etiquette: it tells a story. A virgin, fought over by the Angel Raphael and Satan, ditches them both for the bucolic, sensual pleasures...