Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Getting there was a long and complicated process. The Boston Globe reported that the chapel on Cumberland had been reserved for three months. Certainly, the planning began at least two months ago, when Bessette asked Narciso Rodriguez of Cerruti to start designing her dress. For weeks in August and September...
Cities and novelists seem to have a special, symbiotic relationship. No other literary form can render a city as richly as the novel can, and probably no other setting--sprawling, crisscrossed with relationships, randomly cruel and beautiful--better suits the novel's strengths. Certainly, masterpieces have been written about smaller...
The early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were...
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images...
But in 1994, as Ann was dying of cancer and Buchwald was writing the book, they made peace by way of shared memory: "Paris brought us together in the beginning," Buchwald says in his dedication to Ann, "and it brought us together at the end." Buchwald's old smartass merriment...