Word: res
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, 77, premier chef and bon vivant; of a heart attack while feasting; in Villefranchesur-Mer. Troisgros's Restaurant des Frères Troisgros in Roanne, 240 miles southeast of Paris, became a shrine for gourmets who came to sample his food and prejudices. "From 35 to 45, women are old," Troisgros once said. "Then the devil takes over and they're beautiful, splendid, maternal, proud ... When I see them my mouth waters...
...Felix the Fixer done it again? No one can yet say for sure, not even Felix G. Rohatyn, the 46-year-old Austrian-born partner in the New York investment-banking firm of Lazard Frères & Co. But Rohatyn has at least got the machinery started for a complicated and inventive deal between Textron Inc. and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. that will add new luster to Lazard Frères' reputation as masters of the art of rescuing faltering corporate giants by arranging mergers, reorganizations or financial aid. Says one Rohatyn admirer in the treasurer's office...
...latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...
Although the F.L.Q. violence diminished after the government crackdown, separatism-and the problems that gave it birth-remained. Many French-speaking Quebeckers still saw themselves as what Separatist Theoretician Pierre Valliéres acidly calls "the white niggers of Canada." They are still paid less than English-speaking Canadians, in a province whose economy is controlled by English interests...
Traces grandly illustrates one particular strength of Cranko's inventive -sometimes too inventive-choreography: his gift for narration and characterization. He may, in fact, be ballet's finest storyteller. Two other Cranko works, which had their U.S. premières last week-and which will be repeated later during the Stuttgart Company's six-week American tour-displayed, in varying degrees, his flair for abstract dance...