Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rapid decline in the famed politesse française has been speeded by too many cars competing with each other on an inadequate road system. Parking is so nightmarish that it has become a Parisian cliché to say "Shall we walk, or do we have time to take the car?" As fisticuffs and frustrations pile up, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné observed: "What's needed is not a driver's license but a hunting license." The official police publication Liaisons, groping for the psychological roots of the problem, observed that in motorists there...
Written with Gallic asperity, the novel is composed of a series of bittersweet, Boccaccio-like fables celebrating unambiguously the joys of heterosexual love. They are told by an engaging, disreputable journalist named Jean Macaque, who produces racy copy on order for a Parisian scandal sheet, Coq au Vin, and is a connoisseur of fine women...
...WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals...
...much as 50% in a year, while wholesale-food prices climbed only 2.8%. Such flagrant padding is noticeably adding to the growing disenchantment of many tourists with France. But bistro owners are nevertheless enraged at the new order. "French culinary art is being suffocated by government intervention," said a Parisian restaurateur. Another suggested that there are ways to get around the order: "You want to increase the price of tournedos? All you have to do is christen it 'Cote de Boeuf Henri IV' and the trick is done...
...shambling plot follows a callow Parisian bank clerk (Claude Mann) who gets high on beginner's luck and decides to court Dame Fortune at the Cannes Casino. Unfortunately, he meets another dame. Moreau appears, a battered divorcee who has already sacrificed her marriage, her child, and her jewels to the corruptive religion of chance. Gambling is her life, she confesses. "Nothing else gives me as much pleasure. I just need one chip to be happy." To turn her luck, the chip-happy harpy latches onto the clerk. They win big and lose big, make love, win again...