Word: mme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true literary pilgrim starts his visit at Mme. Benoist's pátisserie on the Place du Marché, where he begins his evocation of the past by biting into the shell-shaped confection called a madeleine. Ten years ago, the bubbly Mme. Benoist sold only four madeleines a week. "In the past three weeks," she says, "we've sold 1,000. We had to hire another apprentice." Many of those who buy the little cakes (at 12? apiece) are foreigners, for Proust's masterwork has been translated into 17 languages, including Finnish, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian...
...route to an ice cream parlor in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera one day last summer, a doctor's wife named Josette Varinet, 30, discovered that she and her two children were taking the wrong route. Mme. Varinet began backing her Peugeot out of the one-way street when suddenly a big black car drove in, and its owner began assailing her with a wordy sermon on the failings of female drivers. To that Josette replied: "Je vous emmerde," an excremental expletive...
Polite Threats. Mme. Phuong did not give way easily. "She threatened me in a polite way," said Castle. "She said she had several general officer friends and she would go see them." Castle began to receive anonymous telephone threats. Eventually, the colonel was wounded in a Viet Cong attack on his depot and sent home...
...until one day . . . there were these big nude statues on the front. On an Army base, big bronze nudes! The first thought that entered my mind was, 'Oh my God, if TIME or LIFE or somebody comes by here, we've had it.'*I told Mme. Phuong that she had until 4 o'clock to get the nudes down or I would have my sergeant major there with a sledgehammer...
Castle also gave Mme. Phuong two hours to get the 200 Coke-sipping ladies off the post, and ordered her to take the doors off her massage rooms as a further bar to hanky-panky. In addition, he sent agents of the Criminal Investigation Division into the steam bath to keep an eye on what was happening. "1 may not have had the best CID over there," he told amused Senators, "but I had the cleanest...