Word: lilo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brandy in St. Germain des Prés. Blonde Vicky Autier, one of the three French singers who seem to have taken over Manhattan night life, appears at the St. Regis Maisonette in a $1,000 spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament...
...Poor. Somehow it all comes through; hurt, humor, sentimentality and a touch of sidewalk cynicism survive in the pale, lined face. And somehow it all seems more real than the too-gay sex that Lilo (wife of a French marquis) flaunts like a cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo...
...private's first doubts about the omnipotence of the fatherland occur when he finds his home in rubble, with no one knowing or caring what has become of his parents. In his search for them, he meets a girl (Lilo Pulver) who mistakenly construes his offer of a package of food as a proposition and gets so vexed that two full days pass before she surrenders her virginity. Then he marries her. But the regime that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque...
...Your Lilo...
...minor place in the long shelf of disillusion, alongside the works of such better writers as Koestler, Silone, Orwell, Malraux. The fact remains that Big Brother's U.S. pen pal has a conscience that seems to work slower than most. In accounting terms, he might be described as LILO-last in, last...