Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dadd fled to France, but was arrested when he stabbed a fellow passenger in a diligence going to Fontainebleau. He was committed to London's historic Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, which has given its name to the language as "bedlam" (a Middle English variant of "Bethlehem...
NATO's unhappiest hour was in 1966, when Charles de Gaulle summarily withdrew his country from military participation in the alliance and evicted NATO from installations in France, including military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau. To a degree, De Gaulle's decision was perhaps an unavoidable product of his own intense nationalistic pride. But his action also reflected the larger problem that NATO has historically been overly dependent upon...
...PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. The ambiance is that of the 16th century French court at Fontainebleau. "There was something of a topless craze then," explains Daniel Catton Rich, director of the Worcester Art Museum, which owns the painting. In fact, museums in Dijon and Basel have similar paintings -of a woman, half-veiled, sitting at her dressing table. While the pose is the same, each face is different...
Longhair Publicity. Joseph McGinniss, columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, pursued John Wayne from his "inspirational reading" at the convention to the Poodle Lounge at the Hotel Fontainebleau. In the boozy gloom, Wayne reviewed his speech. "What the hell did I say? I have no idea what the hell I said." Then he remembered a little. "Permissiveness is the biggest problem we have. The people in these colleges and these ghettos and these goddam longhair punks." And it's all the fault of the press, he said. "Nothing is ever any different from how it ever was except all these...
...only one of the girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote Agnes Ash, "Novack continued to prowl the lobby, restlessly looking in vain...