Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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By the time she went off to Paris at 17 to study at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Caroline's rebellion was in full swing. Recalls a friend: "She smoked in public, drank more than was good for her and always seemed to have a pop star handy...
Philippe Junot, who "works with banks," as Princess Grace puts it, is the son of a wealthy deputy mayor of Paris and onetime chairman of the French division of Westinghouse. Junot junior's various entrepreneurial activities included a stint in California with a fast-food drive-in establishment called...
The Paris-based company is the personal property of Marcel Boussac, 89, an ostentatious millionaire entrepreneur who did so well in textiles after World War I that he became known as France's "Cotton King." In 1946, seeking to revive the war-tattered clothing market, he teamed with a...
Poor management failed to respond to competition, first from European neighbors, and more recently from Third World countries where labor costs are lower. To keep C.I.T.F. going, Boussac mortgaged more and more of his possessions, which include race horses, half a dozen chateaux and the morning Paris newspaper L'...
To say the least. Bonnie and Clyde became a classic of '60s pop culture and the year's highest grossing film. Beatty became an international culture hero. Visiting France after the movie opened there, he found that "people everywhere were dressed like Bonnie and Clyde; it was the pervasive theme...