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...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...
...Audio-visual machines and bilingual signs help guide lost passengers. Longest walk: 750 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...
...career, however, is thriving. Lost Souls, an Italian movie in which she stars as a subdued, fragile and fearful wife, opened in Paris last week, and this week she starts filming Love at First Sight, a story of World War I. Some scenes will be shot at Maxim's, where Deneuve's two lovers, a French aristocrat (Philippe Noiret) and his German cousin (Sam Waterston), meet to celebrate her birthday. Deneuve is happy with her "beautiful part...
Some hold that music is the food of love. Others, that love is the food of music. To each his own little Hallmark maxim. But there is a curious undeniable non-relation between these elements, too. You can love til eternity and pipe in Wagner's Niebelungenlied in octophonic sound 24-hours a day, and still die of starvation in the process. That is part of what this fund-raising for the BSO is about, too. Ten per cent of the aimed-for $115,000 goal will go toward the pension fund for the players, most of whom are grossly...
...Childhood of Maxim Gorky, by Max Konskoi. Sunday...