Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the plastic bombings and brutal murders of the S.A.O. The average Frenchman also dislikes them on personal grounds. The Algerian accent, which combines a throaty Arab intonation with a nasal drawl, falls unpleasantly on French ears. The pieds-noirs are considered pushy, noisy, boastful and vulgar. A Nice restaurateur says: "You cannot spend ten minutes with them before the subject of their sexual prowess comes up. Their language and gestures are so raw that it's not surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds-noirs to their homes." About the only group to escape...
...prolonged strikes, failures in communications, and war damage. Fruit and vegetables lie rotting in trucks and on farms. Stocks have fallen so low that it is impossible to buy such ordinary staples as shoelaces, but the S.A.O. still insists that all Europeans meet special "tax" levies. An Oran restaurateur says. ''Of course I'm proud of my support of the S.A.O., but it's costing me $800 in business each day, and I can't go on forever." Movie theaters, cafes and hotels are virtually empty. Department stores are closing down charge accounts, and many...
Bing Crosby is a member, and so are Bob Hope and Restaurateur Victor (Trader Vic's) Bergeron. Membership is limited to 100, costs $300 for initiation, $360 a year...
Breathed Owner René Lasserre, 49, still misty-eyed with emotion: "A real restaurateur can't hope for more." Said an editorial in Paris-Presse: "Michelin, the lighthouse of our gastronomic navigation, has finally illuminated, with its ineffable light, one of the youngest, most beloved and elegant of Paris restaurants...
...roughly, no pull, no payoffs), they arrive alone and unannounced, sample food and wine, reveal their identities only when they have finished eating and ask to inspect the kitchens. A Michelin inspector is usually treated as respectfully as an FBI man in the U.S., though one irate restaurateur once protested to the Guide: "You set yourselves up as judges, and yet I personally saw one of your men smoke before the cheese course...