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Slot machines are a big business in France and a mainstay of many bars and cafes. More than 30,000 of what the French call machines a sous (penny-in-the-slot machines) swallowed up some $2 billion in francs last year in 3,000 watering holes and arcades around the country. A machine offering a popular game like jackpots costs nearly $3,000 but may bring in up to $15,000 a month. The slots can be vital for attracting patrons to many cafes or bars. Complains one Paris publican: "If you don't have machines in your...
...Français Maestro Banchet puts on a gala performance for two seatings a night, six nights a week. From noon to midnight he prowls the stainless-steel corridors of his ultramodern kitchen, setting a whirlwind pace for his 32-member staff. "Sacrebleu! Sacrebleu!" he shouts at a sous-chef when something goes wrong. One minute he is throwing whole fistfuls of truffles into a twelve-quart mixing bowl. Next he starts a pheasant paté, followed by a lobster and crayfish mousse. Tasting each creation in turn, he makes several mid-course corrections, adding a little salt here...
...from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune...
...Aulnay-sous-Bois, France
...aware that much of this is heavy-handed, I am a sous'd gurnet. But even if the play has been heavily cut, many scenes transposed, some themes unexplored, others smashed over your head, the trappings of this production are never less than fascinating: Sellars never lets his audience go. Maybe there's no reason for Enobarbus to make love to a character called Fortune (a fatalistic composite of minor officers, advisors and soothsayers), but then I'm not sure I understand the (flamboyantly) sensual Enobarbus of this production at all (although on his own terms, Topher Dow plays...