Word: lido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astronaut James McDivitt, it all started with a big night at Paris' plush Lido, where he got the VIP treatment from the club's showgirls. The next morning McDivitt hustled out to the Air Show, where he and fellow Apollo 9 Crewmen David Scott and Russell Schweiclcart showed Cosmonauts Vladimir Shakalov and Alexei Yeliseyev around the American exhibit. The proceedings started somewhat stiffly; then a bottle of bonded bourbon was broken out and things began to loosen up. By the time the revelers reached the Russian exhibit with its plentiful stock of vodka, they were saluting everything from...
Some people find all this hard to take. But most of Fielding's readers, who sense this atmosphere in the Guide, seem to like it because it gives them a feeling of clubbiness. Sophisticated travelers?or those who would like to seem sophisticated?would rather be caught in the Lido nightclub in Paris than be seen carrying Fielding's Guide (some leave it in the hotel room or carry it with a plain brown wrapper). As American tourists become more experienced, as travel becomes ever more natural and casual, Fielding will have to change or lose his popularity. But right...
Choreography and costumes never err on the side of understatement, but while it is easy to become annoyed with the Pudding's pretensions to professionalism, you have to concede that they put on a pretty professional show. A wonderful parody of Lido lavishness almost redeems the anticlimatic kickline number, and when the formulaic jokes become tedious, you can pass the time between songs looking at some very imaginatively designed shoes and purses...
...From the Lido and Monte Carlo to the beaches of Southampton and Malibu, this has to be the greatest summer ever-provided the sun keeps shining. For four years, the trend in bathing suits has been to expose more and more skin, and the designers are not yet quite done. There is still an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny more bikini to be pared, even if it means shifting to materials like the loosely crocheted fishnets that got started in St.-Tropez...
...Paris, Americans are not yet barred from Maxim's, the Lido or the Folies-Bergere, and 26,000 U.S. residents in France are still permitted to pay De Gaulle's taxes. One heartening note: a poll by the French Institute of Public Opinion reported that only 27% of the French think that the U.S. is a military threat to Europe. Some Frenchmen even profess to like Americans. Expatriates often hear such remarks as: "We think the general is being too tough on you, and we don't all share his feelings." Such remarks are usually passed late...