Word: vartan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some companies offer evening courses for advancement, the training is almost always on the employee's own time. The room at the top of French life is restricted largely to those who were born there. A recent survey of 2,530 prominent French, ranging from Pop Singer Sylvie Vartan to Charles de Gaulle, showed that 68% came from families that belonged to the top 5% of French society. Only 5% of prominent French men and women came from what could be classified as the working class. Nor can the French worker reasonably hope that his offspring will inherit...
...Pleasure Factory is so named by the resort's manager. Vartan Lipyan, a clever Armenian who runs the place splendidly for the customers, the state and especially for himself. No Communist, Lipyan has made his first million, and is happily stacking up a second. The local party boss knows that Lipyan is not one of the faithful, but he is too shrewd to rock a setup that makes him look good. The truth, says Tarsis, is that these socialist vacations on the regime leave plenty of opportunity for grafters, people who charge exorbitant rents for private houses and those...
...large blocks, painted with splashily ambiguous hieroglyphs, that can be piled one atop the other or lined up to please the whim of the collector. Sylvie, on the other hand, is a giant panel mounted with dozens of magnetized vinyl and metal cutouts, including a head of Sylvie Vartan (the French pop singer), a headless female nude (with movable arms and legs), a Negro head, Clark Kent's shirt being ripped open (by Clark Kent's hands), four tibias, twelve zeros, a vortex, a circular saw-blade, a fire, a splash of water, an esophagus, a stomach...
Born. To Sylvie Vartan, 22, France's pert yé-yé girl, and Johnny Hallyday, 23, the French Elvis Presley: their first child, a son; in Boulogne-Billancourt, a Paris suburb...
...vast factory complex that less than a year ago was an empty field. Europe's biggest supermarket opened two years ago on the exclusive Calle Velázquez. In a dim, dark-paneled bar on the Avenida de las Americas, boys in long hair and girls in white Vartan stockings sit carefully cool and immobile as a yé-yé band blasts out a yeah-yeah beat...