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Before World War I, Chevalier was a partner-and lover-of the famed cabaret singer and dancer Mistinguett. Later he went on to star alone at the Folies-Bergère and the Casino de Paris. In the late '20s and early '30s he became a very highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Reserved for the Stage | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

Mon general, a very fat and jolly man, grins at me toothlessly. "Mais, cherie, quelle guerre?" I learn later that the general does indeed spend a lot of time with the army, his army-guarding his holdings in Northern Thailand, supervising opium and gold smuggling by the Air Force and...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Keeping Colonial Laos Profitable | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

THERE are people who go to the zoo all the time. I traveled for a while in Europe last summer with a boy and girl who went to every zoo they could. The first thing they would do in a new city was find out if there was a zoo...

Author: By David R. Icnatius, | Title: Animals The Children's Zoo at Franklin Park | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Les Murs ont la Parole n'atteint peut-etre toute son importance documentaire que pour ceux qui sont inities a la pensee de Stanley Hoffmann, mais memes les non-inities y trouveront de quoi s'amuser et s'emouvoir: ce "journal mural" d'une revolution estudiantine manquee nous adresse tous...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: French Graffiti | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

Absurdes, ironiques ou amers, ces gribouillages sont des cris du coeur: "Je crie/J'ecris/#595 378 8222 bis de l'anonyme contrainte." On y trouve une haine de la societe urbanisee et dehumanisee, qui rappelle non seulement le ruralisme de Mao, mais celui de Rousseau, de Fourier, et de Proudhon...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: French Graffiti | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

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