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...most fashionable spas in France now offer thalassotherapy, a kilo-cutting regimen that combines diet, exercise and extensive-sea water massage. Furthermore, Gallic dieting is far from dull. Michel Guerard, the famed chef who helped popularize the low-calorie cuisine minceur, lures patrons to his spa at Eugénie-les-Bains with a gourmet diet (1,000 calories a day) that eliminates fats and starches without losing flavor...
...suppliers, foreign or domestic, are eager to sell to Bloomingdale's on an exclusive basis, if only for a limited time. "There is no better store to start marketing a French product than Bloomingdale's," declares Michel Garcin, president of Lip Time, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the French watchmaker...
House Republican Whip Robert Michel provided a private airplane so that five friendly Congressmen could still make a key meeting out of town. The House finally voted...
...practice as a painter. In a figure painting entitled Planes by Colors, Large Nude, 1909-10, Kupka had taken the un inhibited color of Fauvism and given it a dense, architectural solidity (it seems right that the model's pose, monumental as it is, should mimic that of Michel angelo's Leda). The problem was now to set those planes in motion; for that, Kupka resorted to one of the great novelties of the time, the high-speed sequential chronographs of pioneer Photographer Etienne-Jules Marcy-multiple exposures that bridged the gap between still photography and the movie...
...What is primary is what I haven't yet written--what I intend to write (not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow) and what perhaps I will never write..." Maybe this early premonition that something would always remain to be written explains his serenity in a recent conversation with Michel Contat. Although he has lost the basic impetus to his life, Sartre relates: "for some unknown reason I feel quite good: I am never sad, nor do I have any moments of melancholy in thinking of what I have lost...