Word: parisian
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...system was much too crude to be Parisian, and Gabrielle Gaucher, 48, decided that the simplest solution was to introduce the call girl to France. Renting an office on Rue Laugier, not far from the Etoile, Gabrielle and a bookkeeper assistant soon assembled a list of some 400 personable girls. As the French once adopted the word "weekend," they borrowed "call girl," though some preferred to Frenchify it to téléfilles. When the clients came calling, Gabrielle had ready an album containing pictures of her téléfilles, and a brief paragraph that stated whether...
...past, manufacturers often pirated Parisian designs, but usually in a bits-and-pieces manner; seldom, except in the most expensive dress shops, were perfect copies sold. But in the past few years line-for-line copying has become a big multimillion-dollar business that is condoned by the leading fashion houses...
...teche last week lived up in every aspect of official warmth and splendor to that given President Eisenhower last December. Bunting in Peruvian red and white floated from every government building, crowds cheered Prado in the streets, a 101-gun salute honored him at the Foreign Ministry. To the Parisian in the street, who did not necessarily know who Prado is, it may have seemed an outsize greeting, but beneath the hoopla was a serious, meaningful gesture, and back of it was Charles de Gaulle...
...Andre Malraux, who had delivered France's invitation while touring Latin America last year. Top social event was a state banquet given by De Gaulle at Elysee Palace. Mrs. Prado, superbly gowned, won such compliments as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville's "You are a real Parisian woman!" She confided that her only worry was "making too many gestures. I don't want to look like a demonstrative South American woman...
Behind the fabled artists in the Metropolitan Opera's long history from Caruso to Nilsson, have stood thousands of other, anonymous singers needed to keep the show on the stage. They were the members of the chorus, providing night after night the necessary Egyptian commoners, the Parisian tradespeople, the Spanish factory girls and Russian peasants...