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| | A Place In the Sun |
 | | The long hot summer and the silly season, as the British tabloids call the month of August, is upon us, and what better place to be than, say, the French Riviera. |
 | | After eight years of war in Greece, and four years of prep school in America, I literally thought I was entering Shangri-La. The place reeked of pine, blossoms, wine, and sex. |
 | | This was the Fifties, when the Riviera had once again become the magnet for the worlds elite, a place where Warner and Zanuck, Beaverbrook and Dubonnet, Niarchos and Onassis, Picasso, de Stael, Matisse, Chagall, and Graham Greene were the names to drop, if one was inclined to do so. |
| www.amconmag.com /2004_08_30/taki.html (820 words) |
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