Word: parisian
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...laborer needs to go hungry. It is a land whose 20 million people, mostly of European immigrant descent, consider themselves infinitely superior to the citizens of neighboring Latin countries. It is urban and modern: one-third of the nation live within the capital city of Buenos Aires, a Parisian city whose aristocracy is the most sophisticated in Latin America. More than half of the nation live either in the capital or in surrounding Buenos Aires province...
...Comique-both productions were cast in the original German. In Soprano Schwarzkopf's case, the language might also have served as a reminder of her early career as a leader of a Nazi studentbund and a wartime favorite of Nazi audiences. But if she had qualms about her Parisian reception, they were dispelled. Untranslated and long since forgiven for her past, she scored one of her handsomest triumphs...
Laced with food, money and sex, the play gets down to the cube root of reality with such show stoppers as a Parisian policeman being eaten by a green crocodile and five pairs of detached feet singing "My chilblains! My chilblains!" Some of Picasso's less abstract images had to be deleted before the show could get even a Jugendverbot (no kids) rating. Other scenes presented insurmountable production problems and had to be dropped. In one, the audience was supposed to look through five translucent hotel-room doors at the shadows of five apes eating the shadows of dancing...
...been cleared than ten new plastic bombs exploded in widely separated parts of Paris. One blew in the windows of the Soviet news agency, Tass. At week's end a one-hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
Other officers blamed the defeat on political factions in France and on the slack ness of civil life. While they fought and died for the cause of antiCommunism, they felt they were being betrayed or ridiculed by Parisian intellectuals. They decided that all revolutions in Asia and Africa are essentially Communist, and that a hidden conspiracy lurks inside Western society which seeks to destroy it. Members of this conspiracy were by turns identified as liberals, Jews, left-wing Catholics, the newspapers, and (later) De Gaulle...