Word: soir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
...state for many years, some of the criticism seemed downright tendentious. Le Monde found Barber "an ungainly spectacle." The orchestra "lacked finesse," the "comic effects were so broad that they seemed destined for a public with numb wits." Perhaps the most devastating crack of all came from France-Soir. Describing Soprano Peters' singing, Critic Jean Cotte wrote: "At each note America was risking another Pearl Harbor." Paris' bargain-basement Met, concluded Cotte, "was, for the French, a legend until yesterday...
...write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape. San Francisco's hungry i, where many comedians got their start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...
...committed France to nothing), it was a well-timed political gesture. Predictably, it sent a glow across both the country and the Continent. Behind the maneuver lay an uncomfortable fact: with the Dec. 5 voting just around the corner, De Gaulle's once commanding lead in France-Soir's respected Public Opinion Institute poll had shrunk by 4% (from 61% to 57%). Other polls showed that France's 29% "undecided" vote was breaking in favor of every candidate but the general...
...Paris-Presse alone. Moreover, the Paris-Presse payroll was padded with all sorts of pleasant cousins and friends who never did a lick of work. At the news that a lot of these ardent Gaullists would come over to their paper, twelve top France-Soir staffers resigned in a huff...