Word: riviera
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...necklace with a pendant of Venetian crystal. PP, when he puts on a shirt, sports a pair of silver cuff links adorned with delicately hued beach pebbles. The jewelry is the work of a lithe Swedish girl named Torun Bulow-Hube, who lives with her husband in the tiny Riviera village of Biot and is known to a growing coterie of admirers simply as Torun. At 33, she is one of the most sought-after silversmiths alive...
Contagious Theft. So sensational a theft would be enough to give any museum director the jitters, but it was only the latest of a series of baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...
...thing to break into an understaffed little museum on the Riviera, and quite another to take on the great National Gallery of London. Whoever pulled the job-presumably one of the more than 5,000 people who streamed through the gallery during the day-obviously knew exactly what to do. It just so happened that because the staff had been moving some pictures around that night, the gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed...
...whitewashed, thatch-roofed cabaret in St.-Maries-de-la-Mer, west of the French Riviera, the crowd sat in the smoky darkness one night last week as the guitarist strummed the gypsy rhythms that he had learned as a boy. The slight, intense performer did not like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands...
...Christ Danced." The current rage of the Riviera, Manita de Plata is one of a handful of guitarists in southern France who get out their instruments after the tourists leave and play the fiercely emotional music that they call their own. Anyone can finger the guitar, they believe, but only the true gypsy can play "flamenco"-a word that to Andalusians literally means "gypsy...