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Word: plage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anonyme contrainte." On y trouve une haine de la societe urbanisee et dehumanisee, qui rappelle non seulement le ruralisme de Mao, mais celui de Rousseau, de Fourier, et de Proudhon: "L'economie est blesse, qu'elle creve." "Dessous les paves c'est la plage ..." Mepris des institutions democratiques ("Referendum -- voter sa chaine et son boulet."), anarchisme ("L'emancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas."), foi en l'action directe ("L'aboutissement de toute pensee c'est le pave" -- les multiples courants de la pensee socialiste franeaise semble se ranimer derriere les barricades du quartier latin...

Author: By Nina Bernstein, | Title: French Graffiti | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

When not on camera call, Burton spent amiable hours in the bar of the Hotel de la Plage, talking of baseball and Viet Nam, reminiscing about Dylan Thomas and Wales, and doing his famous imitation of himself imitating Winston Churchill. As befits a woman who is at last earning less than her husband ($500,000 v. $750,000), Elizabeth sat conjugally by his side, interrupting every hour or so to ask: "Don't you think it's time we went home, Richard?" "Yes," replied the bilingual Burton. "When I've finished my drink, Garcon! Donnez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: The Green Shills of Africa | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

Half Loaded. The minor members of the company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: The Green Shills of Africa | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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