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...itself. He does not smoke, dance or gorge. "He's a great believer in the American drugstore," said a friend, "because he can eat a little and quickly." In Paris, he is rarely invited to theater premieres or fashionable salons. "Getting choice invitations requires work," says one Parisian hostess. "Pierre doesn't go around complimenting people. He just doesn't care." The only passion he developed during these years was one for skiing...
...Mendès-France insists that there has never been a majority for EDC in its present form in the Assembly, despite what U.S. diplomats report. But he thinks there is ,a majority for some kind of German rearmament. Perhaps it is the kind described in the current Parisian quip: "The French want a German army bigger than Russia's [175 divisions] but smaller than France's [18 divisions...
...Mask plunges abruptly into a nightmare evocation of Parisian gaiety, with pleasure seekers as dazed as opium eaters thronging a ballroom that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively...
...anger Frenchmen heaped on their confused, divided leaders. "Who placed De Castries and his men in this trap? Who is officially or unofficially responsible? . . . Who? What party? What minister? What general?" demanded Franc-Tireur. On their allies: "Why didn't America help us?" moaned a bewildered old Parisian lady. And on themselves : "The fighters of Dienbienphu died because we lied to ourselves . . . What these sacrifices demand is an examination of our conscience," said Le Figaro...
French humor prides itself on its elegantly turned irony (Anatole France) and the clean bite of its wit (Voltaire, Molière), but it also has a more modern and less celebrated side: what Parisian slang calls loufoque-zany. The practitioners of this form of Gallic humor consist of a small army of chansonniers, moviemakers, Left Bank beachcombers and cartoonists. The cartoonists have now formed an avant-garde to invade the U.S. cartoon market. Some are funny enough to get through, but most will succeed only if they catch Americans with their advance guards down, their sleeves rolled...