Word: parisian
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...northern Italy, emerging from the dark battleground sepulcher. General Charles de Gaulle fortnight ago was seen to sway a little and then steady himself against the stone portal. A photograph shot at that moment was the most commented-upon picture in the Parisian press last week. When so much hangs on one man, a whole nation anxiously watches him. At 68, Charles de Gaulle's eyesight is failing; without his thick-lensed glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains...
Though Allen insisted afterwards (as diplomats will) that he had said nothing new, and that the U.S. had long backed French efforts for a liberal solution in Algeria, the Parisian press bannered his words across their front pages and took them as an augury of U.S. support in the next Algeria debate in the U.N. come September...
...English and French, but they're prettier than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy just holding a glass. Strippers work as many as four clubs a night. They travel between joints like the Club Sexy and the Club Blushing, carrying their little bags like doctors...
...rate, this show provided Bostonians with a local counterpart of a long-standing Parisian tradition, in which painters excluded from official exhibitions have banded together to put on their own show. Thus Boston had its own salon des refuses...
...crime became the biggest story in the Parisian press, hundreds of motorists drove out to the spot where Dominique had spent her last agonizing moments, and an ice-cream vendor did a thriving business. But the milieu, mostly Corsicans and North' Africans, whose praise Bill coveted, contemptuously thought that he had broken the code by killing his source of income instead of marking her for life. And famed Lawyer Maurice Gargon, regretting the end of penal exile in French Guiana for serious crimes, called on the government to smash the power of the milieu, which he called France...