Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couples met in a huge Left Bank apartment. They had foregathered to practice the latest Parisian intellectual pretension-intimatism. Present were the high priest of the movement, dynamic René Sébille, 34, and some of his ardent disciples. The men were journalists and writers. The girls were young and pretty...
Prominently displayed in the gallery window were three rubber female breasts, mounted on velvet. Any knowledgeable Parisian recognized the signs immediately: the Surrealists were back. Up the 21 steps-which 1,500 curious Parisians climbed on the opening day-was Surrealism's first international show since...
...which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish touches...
...Parisian circus menageries, "after wartime dispersal throughout occupied Europe, are back in slightly thinner, but no less entertaining, form." And for the tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
From then on in Paris, everyone from cab drivers to nightclub operators exchanged dollars at the black-market rate. He found Parisian food mostly good, cheap in second-class restaurants in terms of the black-market exchange. Sample supper menu: vegetable soup (watery); green salad (wonderful); cheese omelet (out of this world); white wine, small coffee, patisserie. Cost for two: $2.50. The hotel bill for four days was 3,003 francs ($13 black market...