Word: parisian
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...enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
Although Charles Aznavour is a Parisian, he is Armenian by blood, and his keening laments have echoes of the Middle East in them. Their deepest roots are not in the Paris streets but in the tavernas of Greece, the souks of Morocco and the wailing wall of Jerusalem. Aznavour has the power to affect an audience the way he does because he sings of a betrayal beyond love, something unutterably sad at the heart of things, the treacherous, tragic nature of life itself...
...countries, including one in the Italian Alps that is strategically located near the transalpine tunnels. The company has decided to go into le drugstore, a spreading phenomenon in Europe, by putting up half the $2,000,000 cost of a mammoth new one opposite the Paris Opera; unlike ordinary Parisian pharmacies, this establishment will sell everything from Scotch to Scotch tape...
Writers on Wednesdays. In London the era of the coffeehouse was in full Johnsonian flower-a man's world where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France...
...illustrator for Harper's, Scribner's and Century magazines. As a current retrospective exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts shows (see opposite page), his brush was already sensing moods of light and time of day. He was far removed from the established neoclassical Parisian academicians, whose plump-fleshed vignettes of rapine, bustle, moments of battle and historical panoramas were the fine art of the day. But his tone still smacked of old-masterish umber...