Word: riviera
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...brief seizure of bourgeois conformity, Painter Pablo Picasso, 79, nipped into the chic St. Tropez to outfit daughters Paloma, 12, and Catherine, 13, in the Riviera's latest de rigueur-narrow green slacks and embroidered tops. Though the girls consider themselves sisters, they stem from unrelated branches of the cubistic Picasso family tree. Paloma is by Painter Françoise Gilot, Catherine by Picasso's wife's first husband...
...peace?and desperately reached for an "independent" who could rally the demoralized Vietnamese and perhaps salvage something out of the shambles. Diem already had moved down to Paris from Bruges, took a hotel room and began dickering with Bao Dai, the young puppet Emperor who was lolling on the Riviera. Finally Premier Joseph Laniel's government authorized Bao Dai to meet Diem's basic demand: independence for Viet...
Rarely in his cunning career had The Saint been so brazenly flouted. At the very moment that the goateed detective of the U.S. comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator...
...Saint's cartoonist was inspired by an actual string of unsolved Riviera thefts -four in the last 18 months. So, probably, were the crooks, who simply turned a key in an iron grille gate, jimmied an inner door, and, in less time than it took to catalogue the loss, cleared the ground-floor walls of the converted 18th century chapel of all but four paintings...
...girl in slacks is hardly worth a third look, but on the French Riviera last week, slacks were causing a sensation. Reason: the latest style, launched by Claire Vachon, the Riviera's high priestess of beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...