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...great Left Bank establishments, such as Les Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of decline have prompted a cry of alarm, with newspaper articles and even a television special deploring the slow extinction of le zinc. A government poll showed that 62% of the French feel cafes are an "indispensable" part of life. A festival at the Paris Videotheque inventoried 110 films centered on cafes...
...able to mount a handsome production, with especially lavish costumes. The largesse makes it even more unfortunate that in the end the choreographer's imagination is defeated by Tchaikovsky. In the second act the music expands opulently, demanding matching grandeur onstage. But Morris wastes the grand pas de deux on a routine group number and sets the explosive coda as a small- scale duet for Marie, the heroine, and the Nutcracker Prince. It's a bad letdown...
OUTSIDE, ON THE STREETS, THE Saigon of the 1920s bustles. Inside, a 15-year- old French girl and a Chinese man begin a bedroom pas de deux. Her back arches as prettily as the chords in the lush background music. His buttocks tense as his passion surges. He kisses her; she permits it. He murmurs, "I love you." She claims to feel . . . nothing...
During supper, Aunt Bessie would continuallyask me if I wanted anything. According to custom,I always had to refuse twice--politely--beforeaccepting. Since we were family, Aunt Bessieusually skipped the three offer pas-de-deux andproceeded to reload my plate upon my firstrefusal. These reinforcements often includedsurprises like potato salad, pound cake, homemadeice cream and sweet potato pie. Amazingly, I wasalways able to finish off whatever was given tome. I guess she had a way of being able to discernexactly when I was about to burst, a term I don'tuse lightly...
...Israel's Prime Minister have put Arabs and Palestinians in a similar bind. He has yanked open the door to serious negotiations against which they had been pushing, only to find them in a tangled heap on the floor, their muscles stiff and unprepared for a vigorous pas de deux...