Word: voil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OFFENBACH : "What a master of all sorts of cleaning music! And how considerate a composer! Tales of Hoffmann is studded with injunctions like 'Je commence,' 'Silence,' 'Attention,' or 'Voilà,' handy indications that one is about to switch jobs, which allow a moment to put away the broom and get out the dustpan. Yet how haphazardly is his cleaning music placed...
...Palais des Sports last week for a session of singing and guitar strumming. With permission from his superiors, Father Duval started out six years ago as a street musician, quickly became a provincial bistro favorite as a singer of folk songs, Negro spirituals (among which he includes "Me voilàa, me voilaà, old vieux Joe") and religious songs of his own composition. His record of Seigneur, Mon Ami-which might be translated roughly as "Somebody up there likes me"-sold 45,000 copies, a big sale for France. Today Father Duval ranks as one of France...
...women of the world, turned from Coco to the invader from Italy, with her exaggerated feminine conceits, her tassels, her flaming colors and "parachute" silhouettes. "Chanel wanted the tricot sailor frock with the long sweater, the short skirt," says Schiaparelli. "I took the frock. I altered the line . . . Voilà! Chanel ees feeneesh...
...been entirely sublet to charlatans and parasites, "small people with small ideas." But San Francisco-"the most civilized, the most refined, the most cultivated and the most Mediterranean city of the U.S." captured the Gossets' hearts at first sight made them ready to sing "California, Me Voilà!" (California, Here I Come). Last week, the memory still a warm glow, the roving Gossets were getting ready to move their home from Tangier to San Francisco...