Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey, faceless slabs of low-income housing projects. All day big diesel trucks thunder up and down belching fumes, their oversize tires slapping the ancient cobblestones. This is the Red Belt of Paris, so called because most of its towns have Communist mayors. It is here that the Parisian worker lives and plies his trade...
...Parisian designers have yielded the frontiers of fashion to London and New York. Many painters in France not only produce strictly for a New York market but also borrow in style from American trends. Among composers too, the avant-garde has moved elsewhere; French musical life has been mediocre for years...
...Cubicar's main drawback seems to be that its roof and four walls are glass, allowing the squares of the world to see in as easily as the riders of the cube can see out. But then, explains the car's designer, a Vietnamese Parisian named Quasar (after the far-out starlike bodies) Khanh (TIME, Oct. 27), "Transparency is part of the modern world...
...Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since other directors have long since surpassed Bufiuel when it comes to on-screen presentation of sex, most audiences will not find anything visually shocking about Belle...
...work of the late Boris Vian, an astonishing Parisian who played the trumpet, wrote science fiction, novels and poetry by turns, it was first produced in Paris not long before his death, at the age of 39, nine years ago, and was known here only by name until the Harvard Dramatic Club presented it in a surprisingly good production at the Loeb Drama Center, where it continues...