Word: moulins
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Landmarks are toppling like dominoes, and the latest to get a foretaste of doom is Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, soon to make way for a supermarket unless sentimental Parisians can block its sale. Built in 1889 as a dance hall for Paris' deliciously depraved demimonde, it subsequently became a cabaret, vaudeville house, cinema, and a focal point for "generations" of wide-eyed tourists. Its raffish denizens were immortalized by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the unhappy dwarf who turned poster drawing into a fine...
...group, which is called the Club Jean Moulin (after a French Resistance hero who killed himself when captured by the Nazis), offered its conclusions in a closely reasoned 50-page report...
Neither the French government nor the F.L.N. rebels commented publicly on the Club Jean Moulin report. But a source close to Elysée Palace hinted that President Charles de Gaulle agreed with most of its findings...
...most expansive display of nude female flesh the world has seen since the passing of the Babylonian slave market. Prostitutes prowl its sidewalks; vendors of "feelthy movies" pluck at every passing sleeve. Martini's kingdom ranged from the velvet-lined, expensive Shéhérazade to the Moulin Rouge, mecca of U.S. tourists. Up for grabs are such deviate haunts as Madame Arthur's, where a pretty girl is whipped nightly onstage, the Carrousel, with its all boy chorus line, and the Drap d Or, which had the novel distinction this year of being closed...
...bash was wet, gaudy and bawdy, although there were a few touches straight out of the Ottawa Hills, Ohio, High School Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara Rush in a remake of one of Mae West's old negligees...