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...miles southwest of Paris. Dominique Nahmias, who at 26 claims to be the youngest woman chef running a restaurant in France, the Olympe in Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel en papillotes. And then there is Yvonne Soliva, of the Moulin de Tante Yvonne in Bouches-du-Rhône, one of whose favorite dishes is ragout of thrush (18 birds for six people). First catch the thrush...
...dwarfish cripple of exalted birth, absinthe-sodden and dead at 37, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was perhaps the most spectacular peintre maudit of the late 19th century: a doomed dog of modernism, fit for Hollywood. No reputation can quite survive a movie like Moulin Rouge, and ever since its release in 1953 the popular image of Toulouse-Lautrec has been shaped by the sight of Jose Ferrer, legs bound, peering with lugubriously feigned interest up at the boiler-plated buttocks of Zsa Zsa Gabor. Thus Toulouse-Lautrec became one of the few artists most everyone has heard of, a guarantee...
...soul, and even his most pathetic images come to us across a measured distance and through a focused sense of human absurdity. The painting that summed up Lautrec's sense of what Baudelaire, another wounded argonaut of the boulevards, called "the heroism of modern life" was At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95. It is a gathering of Lautrec's tribe, his best male friends and the cabaret women who were the main characters of his art. It also seems to be Lautrec's most complete answer to the Parnassian pretensions of French artists' circles...
...silverware and a vase of three fresh yellow chrysanthemums. The fare runs to excellent Southern fried chicken with cream gravy, roast beef and steak; there are hot breads and lemon pie. One couple does object testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits...
...Designer Bill Blass figured, why not the best? So he persuaded Sir Cecil Beaton, 73, to end his three-year retirement. Last week Britain's grand old man of photography dusted off his cameras to shoot two models decked out in creations Blass calls "very romantic, à la Moulin Rouge." Highly positive about his negatives, Beaton says: "I shall continue to do a lot more. This was just the beginning." What made him agree to the project? "They were two very pretty dresses and two very pretty girls...