Word: rue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Ear relies more on memory than magic, what playgoers remember and rue about their own first stumbling, infatuated steps toward love. "Tchaik" (Brian Bedford), a whimsically imaginative boy nicknamed for Tchaikovsky, is pathetically in earnest about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner...
...breakfast in the kitchen in bathrobe and slippers. And the guests are French." Frommer's prose often pauses for such provocative asides as "Here the beds are somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead ringer for Romy Schneider...
...home town in the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Soon he went to Paris as an apprentice architect. After several years travel, he settled permanently in Paris in 1917. Five years later he set up his headquarters on the Left Bank in a former Jesuit monastery at 35 Rue de Sevres which he still occupies...
...three of his predecessors: Paul Reynaud, Pierre Mendés-France and Michel Debré. Straining Minds. Louis-le-grand is today a classic building in the Rue Saint Jacques, its quiet broken by the whining Vespas of its 2,000 boys and the almost audible straining of their minds. Beset with bourrage (cramming), they wearily carve on their desks such mottoes as "Work is a sacred thing; better not touch it," and with good reason. Most French lycées span seven years, the goal being two baccalaureat exams for university entrance at the level of U.S. college sophomores...
...over now, and they still walk around that way," said a cafe proprietor on the Rue Saint Jacques, gesturing at three officers of the peace standing on the corner with submachine guns slung under their coats. "I have nothing against de Gaulle--I don't play politics--but who do they plan to shoot those things at? They should take them away...