Word: vivants
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Arthur Rubinstein's career was a gaudy parade of superlatives. After Vladimir Horowitz, he was the 20th century's most famous classical pianist as well as a world-renowned bon vivant on speaking terms with everyone from Henry James to Golda Meir. In old age he wrote two best-selling memoirs that recounted a Kennedyesque sex life. He played his last concert in 1976 at the age of 89--then left his wife for another woman...
When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...
...sake of discussion, that you've struck out. Maybe it's the belly over the belt or the hair that looks like a deforestation project. Or maybe you're just unlucky. Go to a keyboard, slug in mailorderbrides.com and suddenly you're an international bon vivant. Do you try Ebony Gems of Nubia, the Polish Love Connection or Thai the Knot? You can shop for a mate by age or size. The world is yours...
Roland Dumas had it all. Suave, wealthy and well connected, the silver-haired lawyer, art collector and bon vivant reveled in a life of power and influence. Picasso and Giacometti were his clients. His long list of female conquests included opera singers and models. His best friend was the late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who twice named him Foreign Minister and in 1995 appointed him President of the Constitutional Council, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French...
DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic...