Word: parisian
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...will still do the things that make the Parisian vacation so special, that is, adapting the ammenities of a decidedly different culture to our own peculiar American tastes...
...think most African intellectuals relate to some aspect of Samba Diallo," he says, referring to a character in a Senagalese novel who struggles to preserve his African and Muslim heritage while becoming a Parisian intellectual...
...Parisian emergency services have already come under fire from TIME correspondents Tom Sancton and Scott MacLeod, whose book "Death of a Princess: The Investigation" reveals how Diana might have survived, had it not taken two hours to transport her to hospital. Also accused of tardiness is French magistrate Hervé Stephan, whose investigators did not debrief Petel until more than five months after the accident. With a record like that, the investigation is starting to resemble a French Warren Report...
...fall in the Met's production of Manon, she bewitched audiences and critics alike with her compelling portrayal of the title character, a teenage girl who escapes from a convent, sets up shop as a courtesan, jilts her wealthy lover, seduces a priest and cuts a wide swath through Parisian high society before crashing and burning in the fifth act. It isn't exactly typecasting, she confesses with an all-American grin, but it's a welcome change of pace from the "pedestal-type women" she usually plays, such as Desdemona (in Otello) and Marguerite (Faust...
...want to learn as much as I can about Parisian society," he says. "Maybe I'll find some restaurant, maybe butcher shops, or vegetable sellers, or, my favorite, pastry chefs. I'll want to know how they become pastry chefs, what they have to learn, what kind of background they have, if they marry within the category of pastry makers... and I'll start by asking them how to make pastry...