Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told him, the killer reported, how he had run away from home after lifting 15 francs from his mother's purse. He was tired of doing his homework (his last assignment: to conjugate the verb rire, to laugh), and when he left his parents' house on Paris' middle-class Rue de Naples, he was wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book. He had a spot of mercurochrome on one leg ("I can no longer remember which," the killer apologized in a phone call to Agence France-Presse). The boy's jacket, added the strangler, could...
...Champs-Elysees, every girl had bee-stung lips and hips, and hair that could tumble into a pavilion of sex. With a kind of languorous felinity, all those women looked like the perfect tense of the verb avoir. The storied avenue might as well have been called the Rue Bardot...
...Rue Ye-Ye. The versatile Parisiennes have changed. Three looks parade where one held dominance before, since the new female icons of France are three competitive teen-aged rock-'n'-roll singers whose fans scream the French transliteration of "yeah, yeah" at them whenever they sing. One called Sheila wears bows in her hair and is imitated by women who really see themselves as hoydens un-demolished. Another, Francoise, is long and lissome, with a long mane, long shanks, and good possibilities in the sixth at Longchamps. But all the Humbert Humberts, three-quarters of the Lucky Pierres...
...World War II refugee had encouraged her to think she could do as well, if not better, at home in France. Her husband Pierre, editor of Paris' daily France-Soir, indulged the venture by giving it two cramped offices in France-Soir headquarters on the Rue Réaumur. Today Elle occupies all the fifth floor, parts of the fourth and third...
Nifty Thoughts. Paris may have been the capital of genius-in-exile, but Hemingway's feet were firmly planted on the pave. When he remembers looking at James Joyce dining en famille in Michaud's on the corner of the Rue Jacob, he remembers also that he envied neither Joyce's genius nor his fame, but the tournedos the "Celtic crew" could afford to eat and he and Binney usually could not. On the one occasion they treated themselves to a Michaud dinner after a pony came home for him, the meal did not sit well...