Word: liqueur
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...visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso withdrew slightly from it, and for the next several years worked to stabilize the buckling planes and shallow space in such magnificent canvases as After the Ball (18) and Still Life with Liqueur Bottle (19). Braque, unable to ignore the challenge of Demoiselles, did likewise. By 1911 they were working together, joined, in Braque's phrase, like mountaineers on a rope...
...costumes, and pilots have been required to sing some flight announcements to the tune of Calamity Jane. All that has changed. Now the "Golden Nugget" flights have become the "Golden Samovar." Stewardesses in boots and Cossack minitunics serve borsch, beef stroganoff and "Bolshoi Golden Troikas" (coffee, vodka and coffee liqueur) from gilded samovars...
...well-smashed plate expressed approval of the local bouzouki music as well as the manly exuberance of the thrower-presumably well-fueled on ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored Greek liqueur. Performers measured their success by the depth of the debris around their feet. Taverna owners loved it, since they were able to pay their bands by selling crockery to customers for up to a dollar a plate. In recent months, however, good times à la grecque were getting wilder than ever: bored with just breaking things-and perhaps bored, too, by the puritanical reign of Greece's military junta...
...meticulous direction, all the murdered men give subtle performances that would do credit to Giraudoux. Out standing is Michel Bouquet, pathetic yet loathsome as a pawky, balding bachelor who cannot believe his good fortune when a mysterious beauty comes to his shabby room with a bottle of strange-tasting liqueur. Scarcely less memorable is Charles Denner, a painter who poses Moreau as Diana the Huntress and gets an arrow in the back. Or Claude Rich as a womanizer who smirks curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror...
Died. Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn...