Word: soir
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...After Astonishing France, Marie-Laure Dies of Cancer," read the headline of daily Le Parisien's story on Picat's Aug. 9 passing. "The Death of Mother Courage," echoed France Soir. "Marie-Laure Picat: The End of a Battle," observed the website agoravox.fr. (See pictures of cancer survivors' inspirational stories...
...cheap gimmick. But the French treat it with more respect and talk of the delicate harmony between the color, aroma and taste of traditionally made rosé wines. Usually enjoyed as a cool summer drink, it is versatile enough to be drunk at meals, as an aperitif or during soirées. It is also currently enjoying a vogue: rosé has now overtaken white-wine sales in France and accounts for almost 10% of the world market. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...recently as five years ago, this ability - plus a native braininess and a healthy dose of opportunism - had earned her a regular seat at soirées in the Washington-New York City-Los Angeles triad, as well as a modest media profile. She was once referred to as "the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus." (Watch an interview with Huffington...
...throbbing in the background, waiters glide about the room offering canapés with champagne or, for the pious, glasses of orange juice. Men in business suits or jeans mix with women, some wearing above-the-knee skirts, some in long dresses and head scarves. It's a typical soirée for Cairo's well-heeled set, yet tonight there's more than the usual Middle East-meets-West twist. The revelers are here to toast an unlikely creative marriage, between Egyptian artist Azza Fahmy, who has spent decades reviving Arab jewelry traditions, and British designer Julien Macdonald...
...making a mockery of two particularly French traits: a penchant for protesting whatever navel special-interest groups happen to be gazing into, and the glorification of the chic, well-heeled soirée as an art form," says Marie-Gabriel, who in 2005 co-founded the Opposition Front to the New Year: National Organization Committee, devising the group's name exclusively so that its French acronym, Fonacon, would be homonymous with the phrase "telephone an a__hole." (Its year-end protest slogans are equally risible, including last year's motto, "It Was Better Right Now.") Fonacon and its futile protest...