Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In a series of exhausting concerts that friends feared she could not survive, Piaf enraptured anew her greatest love: the French audience. Thirty years after her death on Oct. 10, 1963, at the age of 47, France has revived the romance. Record companies have rereleased her hits, and six of...
Two documentaries and at least six biographies have modified but not dispelled the mystique that trailed like a haze of cigarette smoke across her life. It began with the much told tale of her birth in the street in a rough- and-tumble section of Paris. A plaque at No...
Played out in public, her extravagant affairs -- with actors, musicians and athletes -- added to the legend. But her legacy is the voice. Penetrating, with a wide, natural vibrato, it had an urgency of emotion that touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean...
Before falling to earth, the little sparrow soared to grandeur. She was an international star and the last in the line of French singers famous for chansons realistes, gritty songs about real people. They are stories of love lost, of city streets at twilight and tears at midnight. Suffering and...
So is the pressure to boost sales and move surplus stocks. The good news for consumers is that this is already translating into lower prices, particularly for top-level champagnes. "I haven't seen much of a drop in sales because the best brands have been continuously on sale, with...