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DIED. Brassaï, 84, internationally renowned photographer who recorded the nighttime Parisian underworld of whores, hoodlums and homosexuals, of brothels, cabarets and opium dens, with a unique combination of directness, detachment and generosity; of a heart attack; in Eze sur Mer, France. Born Gyula Halász in Brassó (the origin of his pseudonym), in what is now Rumania, he went to Paris in 1924 to sculpt and write, then turned to photography to illustrate his articles. In 1933 his first major collection of seamy scenes, Paris de Nuit, was a sensation; a larger, franker version published...
...Parisian pretensions aside, the Square is not without its share of serious coffee houses, the perfect place to start a relationship, end one, read a book, or just mainline caffeine. In fact, most places offer rich brews, with varying degrees of atmosphere, although the prices are usually steep...
...largest, carries more than 300 kinds of makeup; during a recent sale, Peking's No. 7 Clothing Factory sold off all its Western suits in three hours. Few people batted a mascaraed or folded eyelid last month when the China Silk Fashion Color Association announced its forecast in seasoned Parisian tones: "Sprightly beach colors and bronzes of primitive simplicity will be popular in China this spring and summer, with cheerful pastels taking over in the autumn and winter...
...work, and telling the toddler to be quiet when page 1yChildren came on. But all the same I made It through the first four weeks of the summer, lacking only a tan. Then the family packed up and went to France for a month trading houses with a Parisian family with three children. Before I met the family, I pictured myself juggling three little kids instead of two at once, and they wouldn't even know English...
Five years after Khomeini's return from his Parisian exile to seize power in his homeland, his government of once inexperienced revolutionaries seems firmly in control. The ruling mullahs (religious scholars) and some 100,000 Islamic Guards who protect them have, to be sure, lost some of their popularity and remain saddled with myriad difficulties: the fitful 41-month war with archenemy Iraq, which continues to drain men and money; a ruling class already decimated, and always threatened, by tenacious urban guerrillas; 2 million refugees from the front and another 1.5 million from Afghanistan; and the stigma of international...