Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Paris, where cynical politicians have heard everything, even the most unsurprisable wore the slightly dazed air of men who have just heard a mallard endorse a shotgun. After years of unwavering hostility to Charles de Gaulle, French Communists abruptly abandoned their denunciations of his Algerian policy and made it...
Walking through the streets of Paris last week, a shopper in search of one of the city's fast-blooming supermarkets stopped at a small butchershop to ask directions. "You mean the plague?" growled the butcher. "It's around the corner." The butcher had reason to growl. Since...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix...
"I was," reports the tourist, "an angel all over the Krémlin." Decent Marxists, of course, are not supposed to believe in supernatural beings, but they might find it easier to believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza...
At the turn of the century, Gertrude followed her brother Leo to Paris. Leo was the art pundit and collector in those early days, but he was everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude...