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...fair, Giscard tried, at least at first. In 1974 he played the accordion in public, dressed in a V-neck sweater, rode the Paris Metro-a formidable effort at creating a sense of California-style informality. He walked instead of riding in state down the Champs-Elysées for his inauguration On one occasion he invited a group of Paris garbage men to the Elysée Palace for breakfast. Such superficial tokens of change may have pleased the young but they were too much for tradition-minded Frenchmen who greeted the new style with ridicule. Explains a Western...
...protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept on a bench in Berkeley Square, comforted by a friend, while the repentant press slipped a note onto the seat of her red mini Metro: "We didn't mean this to happen. Our full apologies." "The press made Diana's life difficult," said her father, the eighth Earl Spencer, "but she behaved very well. It has proved to be a test, though it wasn't meant to be, and she came through with...
...annoyed in the metro. Say "pardon" many times. Assume an air that suggests. "Yes, indeed! I speak French...
...paid. I have the equivalent of $10 left to my name. On the way back, a man from Zambia asks me if he can speak English with me. I cannot very well say no because he has followed me from the social security office to the metro and has inadvertently paid for my train ticket...
...looks at my left hand. "Why no ring?" He is glaring. We are at my metro stop: I run quickly. People at the Trib tell me I should have immediately yelled at the strange man. "Vas te faire foutre!" This apparently means "Go fuck yourself...