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...cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...
...this week, however, Americans will be celebrating the fact of independence and not the reasons for it. After the public reading of the Declaration.Philadelphians sounded their church bells all day and night. Battalions marched to the State House yard. Muskets cracked a feu de joie. Early this week the news had traveled only as far as New York and Dover, Delaware; it will probably not reach Georgia before August. In Dover, the Committee of Safety presided over a ceremonial burning of a portrait of George III. Said the committee's president: "Thus we destroy even the shadow of that King...
...when both cello and audience are out of sight and the world-famous cellist sheds the veneer of the grande artiste, Rostropovich projects an idiosyncratic blend of energy and joie de vivre. As evidence one need only glimpse at the man after the master class, hulking like a Russian bear in his furry coat, dignified, prematurely gray and balding, with a protruding lower jaw, pulled along by his prize possession and constant companion, "Pooks." Pooks, the effete miniature dog who accompanies Rostropovich everywhere he goes, was insisting that they be fashionably early to the post-class reception...
...celebrating impending record harvests of corn and wheat. After touring 4-H exhibits, cattle barns and hog pens. Ford was to outline his farm policy to fairgoers in the main grandstand. His speech was to be wedged in among the regular acts, including country musicians, hog callers and the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show...
...they say, "Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugliness goes all the way." It would be very hard to find an ugly girl today; it's not features but the whole "en-plus"-energy plus joie devivre-that the girl projects that is essential and irresistible in the girl of today...