Word: parisian
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Rather it is the crepe-suzette thin plot that seems so unfamiliar. A kind of 1958 American version of a 1920's Parisian romance revived for a 1984 audience, Gigi seems doubly foreign today: its Paris treats the Eiffel Tower practically as a suburb of Maxime's; its romance treats women as...well, this is not the time for a discourse on social history...
...columns in this Paris as surely as to share drinks with Rona Barret is to bare one's private life in the Hollywood of today. For the Gaston's and Honore's of the world to drive a spurned love into attempting suicide means entree into the choicest of Parisian circles. Girls: they bore Gaston. "It's either...
Apollinaire and Andr6 Breton, and by the whole Parisian scene. "He must have been a real playboy," says Kundera...
...Aries in 1888 was a torpid provincial town, as filthy and exotic-at least to a Parisian eye as North Africa. Van Gogh's first reactions to it describe a foreign country. "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésiennes going to their first Communion, the priest in his surplice, who looks like a dangerous rhinoceros, the people drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice...
...Administration has been struggling for more than three years to deny advanced computer technology to the Soviet Union, two French authors are now suggesting fancifully how the U.S. might turn the Soviet appetite for Western computers to its own advantage. Softwar, a high-tech thriller by Thierry Breton, a Parisian computer programmer, and Denis Beneich, a New York City-based freelance writer, explores what could happen if Washington, instead of blocking high-technology sales, used them for infiltration and sabotage. With nearly 100,000 copies in print, Softwar has become a bestseller in France. The book is now being translated...