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...SNCF rail company, says it was obliged to refuse a poster for Coco, Before Chanel because it violates a 1991 law "prohibiting all direct or indirect advertising" for tobacco or alcohol in most public venues. Under that ban, Métrobus reasoned that the poster's shot of a pyjama-clad Tautou holding a flaming ciggie aloft in a typical pose of the real Chanel could be interpreted as an encouragement to light up. It's not like anyone in France ever needed much prodding to do that. But Métrobus decided to play it safe, and asked Coco...
...went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with me and the next morning he knew nothing about...
...were interviewed by correspondents. Ernest Hemingway answered his questions by mail. He requested that both TIME's questions & his answers be published "since this has to do with my trade. You can say that when you saw me I was unshaven, needed a haircut, was barefoot, wearing a pyjama bottom and no top." The questions, and his replies...
...Leon's bright, sun-spattered zocalo (public square), the air was electric with resentment. Thirty thousand Mexicans stood silent and dry-eyed as pyjama-clad workmen bore past them the 27 flag-draped coffins. Behind the coffins trudged women, heads covered and bowed, some with armloads of white lilies, others with dark rebozos draped over nursing child and naked breast. At the cemetery an angry, white-faced priest shouted: "Long live Christian democracy...
...vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...