Word: moulins
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...Sylvie Moulin, who will enter the Kennedy School of Government in the fall, has been living since April at 20 Prescott St. in a rent-controlled apartment managed by HRE. Her roommate was Laurie Morrill, who was scheduled to enroll in the School of Education in the fall before she died in a bicycle accident July 17 on Martha's Vineyard...
...thought that "I was going to die in obscurity." Reared in rural Calvin Center, Michigan, where she performed in storefront churches, she ventured to Los Angeles and got her first break -- and first name change, to Gaby Lee -- warbling love songs at a faux-Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. She was later dubbed Abbey Lincoln, after the 16th President, by a manager who quipped, "Old Abe didn't really free the slaves, but maybe...
...loudspeaker, "I want everybody out of here. Florence and Normandie. Everybody. Get out. Now." As the outnumbered police drove off, the rioting roared out of control. Hapless motorists caught in the intersection were dragged from their cars and beaten. Looting and arson broke out a block away. Lieut. Mike Moulin, the field commander who ordered the retreat, later defended his decision: "I didn't want ((the officers)) killed. It's really that simple...
...dominated by his instinct, as an aristocratic French male, for keeping a certain distance from them and seeing them from above -- or at least, from a spot well to the side of their lives. His work does not "identify," as the cliche goes, with the folk at the Moulin Rouge. He watched them as one might watch fish in an aquarium, fascinated by their colors and movements and finding irony in their routines of spawning and social display...
...right word for Lautrec's art is not directly translatable: faisande, the strong gaminess, caused by rot, of a well-hung pheasant. It is everywhere in his work. You see it in the smearily defiant look and plunging neckline of La Goulue barging into the Moulin Rouge on the arms of her two women companions; in the arrogant set of Aristide Bruant's head above the bogus worker's costume he wore to perform his argot songs. It is written all over the seamed face and pouched eyes of the English tourist who has just accosted a pair of girls...