Word: parise
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In the '20s, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and company may have picked over the freshest entrees. But Paris was still feast enough when a new migration of expatriates collected there after World War II--Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and--with a palate educated by leftover meat...
Buchwald would surely plead guilty to the first half of the accusation, but not to the second. He almost never wrote to wound. Being an amiable smartass--a pseudonaif American trickster, like Bugs Bunny with a cigar in his mouth instead of a carrot, wandering through glittering Paris with its...
In an earlier memoir, Leaving Home, Buchwald described a somewhat bleak childhood spent in foster homes. I'll Always Have Paris (Putnam; 236 pages; $24.95) takes up the story after Buchwald completed a hitch in the Marines and three years at the University of Southern California. In June 1948 Buchwald...
For nearly half a century of film-making, Eric Rohmer has been faithful to his two mistresses: the streets of Paris, the beaches of the provinces. In dozens of films, including My Night at Maud's, Pauline at the Beach and A Tale of Summer, this dogged miniaturist has focused...
The pearl is in the middle: a fable of courtship in seven Paris parks in a two-month span. He, the lit student, professes his ardor with erudite intensity; she, the math student, is a seductive tease. She won't go to his apartment because it "lacks poetry," yet she...