Word: parisian
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...makes up for it to some extent by being fully aware of his faults. At one point he reminds himself: "Don't talk all the time. It is an error to suppose that other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression about the eyes and the mouth, and Elena's exquisite slimness and delicacy...
...asked a Parisian or a New Yorker in 1886 what sculpture was, the answer (after a short blank stare) would have been: statues. Statuary, to borrow the mordant phrase of Claes Oldenburg many decades later, was "bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from...
...wave of the present among many leading French and Italian chefs and restaurant owners. Their influx has been most apparent in New York City, where at least six have opened shop in the past year. One of the most successful offshoots is Le Bernardin, a copy of the Parisian two-star fish restaurant, located in a comfortable if somewhat stuffy setting in the new Equitable Center. Le Bernardin is run by the brother-and-sister team of Gilbert (the chef) and Maguy (the hostess) Le Coze, owners of the Paris original. Their Manhattan Bernardin is extravagantly expensive (dinner...
...Friday evening, and television viewers all over France are rushing to finish up the dinner dishes. It is almost time for Ambition, a popular new program starring Financial Wizard Bernard Tapie, 44. Sporting a dark blue suit and his trademark red tie, the lively Parisian preaches hard work and street smarts as the roots of success. "Create companies and earn big money through entrepreneurship," he counsels his enthusiastic audience. "Dare to think...
...murder scenes. An extra 200 police officers have been assigned to areas frequented by the elderly. In addition, the police have issued a list of safety recommendations to senior citizens. It may simply prove impossible, however, to guarantee the safety of the estimated 100,000 Parisian women over...