Word: radiguet
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...company, which made its money with disposable pens and lighters. It hopes to benefit as much from rivals' marketing as its own. The company is initially producing the razors in Greece and ceo Bich says the biggest short-term risk is not keeping up with demand. Stéphane Radiguet of Deutsche Bank says Comfort 3 is crucial for improving Bic's profit margins. "It needs to work," he says...
...least one young genius returned Cocteau's unbridled affection. Raymond Radiguet was 14 when he began his conquest of literary Paris. Cocteau sponsored him, fell in love with him and, as he never tired of boasting, locked him up in a room to make him relinquish alcohol in favor of ink. The result was the minor classic Devil in the Flesh. But shortly after the book's triumphant publication in 1920, Radiguet died of typhoid...
Cantos, Thirty Cantos. Marcel Proust, Du Cote de Chez Swann. Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au Corps. Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vol de Nuit. Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausee. Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems. Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions. Wallace Stevens, Harmonium. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western
...bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural public-relations man who took the "rediscovered imagery...
...Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...