Word: rivieras
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...Travers spent most of her youth in Cannes during the 1920s when women took to masculine coifs, slinky dresses and cigarettes to help them shake off "the shackles of the previous century." Swept up in fast-paced Riviera life, Travers gleefully partook in a whirlwind of booze, globetrotting and recreational sex, scandalizing her parents who accused her of becoming une fille facile...
...mostly of the dull and functional. But the corniche is wide, well paved and clean, with cafés and colored parasols and some children's toboggans, jungle gyms and a merry-go-round. With an epic leap of the imagination, one can almost be reminded of the French Riviera - except that the promenade looks out only onto Tripoli's sleepy harbor...
...book makes me think offhandedly about the bright, mysterious word "fun." Fitzgerald modeled Dick and Nicole Diver upon Gerald and Sarah Murphy, a wealthy and charming American couple who like the fictional Divers kept a villa on the Riviera in the 1920s and, in Fitzgerald's myth-making, had an exquisite genius...
...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...
...brown ?- remember, this is a company whose 15 top executives all started out sorting packages, and in which lifetime employment is practiced with an almost Japanese frequency. But don?t be too surprised if the next thing you get from your friendly UPS guy is a postcard from the Riviera...