Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like that one. It's been to 30 or 40 parties on this trip." After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father of my dresses," he sighed to Yvonne de Peyerimhoff, the director of his Paris salon. "A sentimental trip." Some people thought he might also make a trip to the barber before returning to France. "Oh, it's short now," Yves explained, smoothing his beatled locks. "Usually I wear it longer, but one day I was depressed, so I cut my hair...
REPULSION. Poland's Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) proves himself a master of menace in the case study of a fragile French psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) who works by day in a London beauty salon, spends her off-hours immersed in sexual fantasies and gruesome deeds...
...heroine, played with exquisite, deadly grace by Catherine Deneuve the radiant waif of Umbrellas of Cherbourg-is a French manicurist working in London. Her days pass among the minimal terrors of a de luxe beauty salon where she helps refinish the surfaces of wealthy, parchment-faced matrons. In the street outside lies a world of hot-mouthed males whose attentions send her into panicky flight. Every night in bed she waits, staring, petrified, until her uninhibited sister (Yvonne Furneaux) and a married lover come home to curdle a young girl's blood with their noisy nocturnal diversions...
...coffeehouse was in full Johnsonian flower-a man's world where only such freshly limned ladies as Fanny Hill and Fielding's Sophia Western were admitted to the discourse. Parisian culture was conducted far differently: it was the women who presided over the salons of serious talk. On Tuesdays, for example, the Marquise de Lambert was wont to entertain scientists in her stately salon, and on Wednesdays writers, artists and scholars. "She was one of the hundreds of gracious, cultured, civilized women who make the history of France the most fascinating story in the world...
PETER PEARS AND JULIAN BREAM: MUSIC FOR THE GUITAR (RCA Victor). Though the singers and the composers (Britten, Walton) are 20th century, this disk takes the listener right into an 18th century salon. Pears's technique is faultless, his singing elegant...