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...part of hoteliers, waiters and shopkeepers, who are collectively crying "Yankee, come back!" On the Fourth of July this year, the Georges V Hotel in Pari sent champagne (Prince de Venoge, '65 to the rooms of all American guests. For the first time, at the Fête du Louvre, programs for the Paris Opera Ballet wer available in English. Some European hoteliers suggest to guests that they can have a picnic lunch à la Manet for fa less than a bistro meal à la carte. Fo their part, American tourists seem considerably more subdued than the caricature Midwesterner...
...first performed as a cycle in 1973, the translation is a conscientious job and has already been used by several American companies for individual productions. Sometimes Porter has to change the meaning to get the meter right. As Hagen strikes down Siegfried, the vassals cry out: "Hagen! was tust du? Was tatest du?" Literally that means: "Hagen! What are you doing? What have you done?" The Porter: "Hagen! You've killed him. You've murdered...
Porter does well with Brünnhilde's noble, ardent "Willst du mir Minne schenken" sung to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. Wagner wrote...
...caller told a local radio station, "We have just blasted the home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre. The strikes were inspired by layoffs ordered by the proprietor, Emilien Amaury (who also owns the lucrative sport newspaper L 'Equipe). Because Le Parisien Libéré, like most French papers, was having financial problems, Amaury announced early this year that he would cut the payroll...
Port Gentil is also the home of what they told me was the "largest plywood factory in the world," the Compagnie Forestiere du Gabon. It's about the size of five football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth...