Word: parisian
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...nursing his Calvados-laced coffee. In villages, farmers gather after a day's harvest for a shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express...
...lights up, a law that went into effect this month restricting smoking in most public places led to predictions of angry bistro battles. Instead, hostile encounters have been rare and the ban is shaping up as an exercise in politesse. At a crowded pizzeria on the Champs Elysees, a Parisian woman puffed away peacefully until a man at the next table blurted, "Excuse me. Can you please put out your cigarette? You are disturbing me." As the man later explained, "Before this law was instituted, I never dared to ask anyone to put out a cigarette. Now that I have...
...like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy, in which a trio called Les Inconnus (the Unknowns) ridicules the well-to-do who live in those three ritzy parts of Paris. MC Solaar, who was born in Chad, easily concedes that "Parisian rap is pretty much a U.S. branch office. We copy everything, don't we? We don't even take a step back...
...going up to British Columbia to discover that a forest has disappeared, or gawking at the resident AIDS patient at the mall. When Tyler finally gets the story moving by describing his find-himself trip to Europe, it is only to add another persona to the cast: the Parisian Stephanie. The other youngsters hate her because she acts coolly above the fray of life, which is something they try very hard at but fail to do. Stephanie strolls the plot along by moving Tyler to Hollywood, but once she disappears, the story stalls again...
...field that is filled with prickly egos, the 59-year-old Parisian is a rarity: an unassuming professional who has faced controversy and emerged with his reputation enhanced. His Old World charm served him well in the difficult years from 1983 to 1987, when he was locked in a battle with Robert Gallo of the U.S. National Cancer Institute for the glory and the rewards that came with the discovery of the AIDS virus...