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...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...
...Americans. "The vultures were already circling the body of the martyred revolutionary hero," she said. "I found it bizarre that the diary of this man who had dedicated his life to the fight against American imperialism should be exploited to the profit of the political line he abhorred." A Parisian publisher backed her own bid for Che's diary...
...ponders some escape. After all, Sherwood Anderson was 36 when he quit running an Ohio paint factory and started writing fiction. Gauguin was a sometime Parisian broker of 43 when he ran off to paint and wench in Tahiti. Should he dye his hair, have an affair, get divorced, quit his job? But how can he sacrifice that pension, that company-paid insurance? What girl wants him? What new employer...
...their way of sneezing or of wearing down their heels that a condemned people can be recognized," wrote the French playwright Jean Giraudoux. In his report on 18th century France in the shadow of the guillotine, Sanche de Gramont, Parisian journalist and historian (The Secret War, The Age of Magnificence), has done a heel measurement and sneeze count on his country's monarchy in its declining years. His conclusion confirms Giraudoux's epigram: The monarchy literally lost its head when it lost its style...
...trend began modestly enough as a sales-promotion stunt. Selfridges department store, Britain's equivalent of Macy's, teamed up with the Parisian magazine Elle to fly 100 French housewives to London free for a shopping weekend. It picked up speed soon after Britain's devaluation, which cut sterling prices by 14.3% in terms of francs, marks, dollars and other major currencies-enough to reduce a $32 coat to $27. By last week, with the added lure of January sales, the influx of foreign shoppers to London's West End stores had swelled to a torrent...