Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True to Type. All over Paris, there were scenes reminiscent of the street battles of the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. On the Boulevard St. Germain, a workman dressed in blue overalls attacked the pavement with a heavy, pointed bar in an attempt to free the first paving stone, which would liberate the others. As soon as he had succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade...
Using their own cars, emblazoned with newly painted red and green crosses, the students ran an improvised ambulance service for wounded demonstrators. Careening through the crowded streets, their horns blaring, the cars were as much a menace as an aid to the demonstrators. On the Boulevard St. Germain, one bearded student tried to clear a lane for the cars by shouting: "If you get your head busted by an ambulance, it's not a political...
These 15 scrupulously crafted stories, all but three of which appeared in The New Yorker, display this ability even better than his controversial crazy-quilt novel, Snow White (TIME, May 26, 1967). In The Indian Uprising, Comanches attack a city whose streets are named Boulevard Mark Clark, Rue Chester Nimitz and George C. Marshall Allee. The narrator is a maudlin drunk who utters battle bulletins and sophisticated banalities with equal apathy. The effect is similar to the sense of unreality created by television when newsreels of carnage run smoothly into advertisements for the good life...
Burning Cars. That served only to rally broad support for the troublemakers. Massing by the thousands along the Boulevard St, Germain and cross streets, students ripped up paving stones and steel posts, bombarded steel-helmeted police from behind barricades of overturned and burning cars. The police fought back with nightsticks and tear-gas grenades in a battle lasting some seven hours...
...book fairs, gave away coffee and cake, loaded his sumptuous offices with endless tables of free gifts for new customers. When Washington stopped him from advertising such come-ons, Lytton responded by hiring luscious models to wrap gifts in a traffic-stopping display behind the windows of his Sunset Boulevard office...