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Billed simply as "Baptiste and Victoria," a handsome man and a big-eyed girl in whiteface have been putting on what they call an "Imaginary Circus" on the streets of French provincial towns and in a small Parisian nightclub. Enthusiastic audiences have been unaware how Victoria comes by her wistful clowning; she is the 19-year-old daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his wife, Oona-who is herself the daughter of America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill. The circus she and Actor Jean-Baptiste Thierree, 33, have worked up "is not really for children," he says...
...well-educated professionals or highly skilled technicians. While some have already renounced their U.S. citizenship or plan to do so soon, most have no intention of surrendering their familiar pale blue, plastic-covered passports. Many of the new expatriates will return, as did most of the writers of the Parisian 1920s. Few give up all contact with the U.S.; some reflect not so much a rejection of the U.S. as a kind of psychic statelessness. Says one American writer now living near Grasse in the south of France: "I will never feel that I fit in. Perhaps the definition...
...think so, and there is a campaign building now to institutionalize the point. Back in the halcyon haze of the '20s and '30s maisons de tolérance such as the Sphinx, the Chabanais and above all the One-Two-Two (for 122 Rue de Provence) were Parisian tourist attractions outranking the Louvre and Napoleon's tomb. During World War II, however, the bordellos disintegrated in quality-the Gestapo used them as intelligence sources-and in 1946, Marthe Richard, a municipal council member, led a successful campaign to outlaw all houses of prostitution in France. Exercising...
Leloir, 64, a Parisian-born Argentine, won the chemistry prize for his pioneer work in unraveling the chemistry of carbohydrates. Although it had long been known that the body breaks down carbohydrates into simpler sugars for energy, it was Leloir who realized in the late 1940s that there was an undiscovered missing link in these vital reactions: organic compounds called sugar nucleotides. Leloir also showed how one of the more complex body sugars, glycogen, is synthesized with the help of sugar nucleotides, stored in the liver and muscles and then made available on demand to produce simpler glucose whenever...
Within Le Drugstore's maze of corridors and 14 shops, customers can purchase an infinite variety of far-out clothing-from wild lingerie to see-through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...