Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parisian news photographers, Montparnasse salesgirls and, above all, thousands of confident, confiding children agreed as one that benevolent old Adrien Claude was the best Father Christmas that Paris had ever seen. His flowing white beard and the kindness that danced in his twinkling blue eyes were as genuine as those of the legendary Christmas saint himself. When Adrien made his appearance last year in the toy department of one of the biggest department stores on the Left Bank, children left the firm grip of parental hands with a shout of joy to clamber into his lap, pull his beard...
City-proud Parisians often grumble that the U-shaped sprawl of prefabs surrounding their Palais de Chaillot is an architectural eyesore that ought to be removed. It houses NATO's Secretariat. Last week NATO was under notice from the Parisian city fathers to vacate its premises and move to a less conspicuous spot outside the city. To NATO's detractors, the notice seemed symbolic of the fact that many Europeans, conceding that NATO is here to stay, increasingly prefer to keep it out of sight and out of mind...
...many a Parisian, the romantic arrangements of Auguste Chaussumier, salesman of pinball machines, must have seemed ideal and idyllic. Little Auguste had a lovely mistress, and the mistress had a husband who was safely employed some 3,000 miles away from Paris, in the Cameroons. Even Lucienne, the light of Auguste's love, thought the arrangement was pretty sound. But Salesman Auguste was as conventional as he was devoted: he wanted only to marry his mistress...
...gifts going to the winner are: a bracelet from Diana Christine: a Parisian silk scarf from Elaine Claire; a blouse from the Town and Travel Shop: a copy of the Betty Crocker giant cook book from the Harvard Book Store...
...Gustave Singier is a highly sophisticated Parisian whose debt to Wassily Kandinsky is obvious. Like many Kandinskys, Singier's Homage to Ravel is made of neat snippets of color, tossing and crossing in cool space...