The plan, conceived in the mid-1960's by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Mayor John V. Lindsay, was to avoid building just a "Riviera on the Hudson" by using the money that this government-backed project would generate to benefit the city's poor and middle class.
The standout "Monaco" feels like a late-Hemingway fable of blurred sexualities on a permissive Riviera.
We were on a Mexican Riviera Getaway, sailing from Los Angeles to San Diego, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán and back again, a day in each port.
If lying elbow-to-elbow with sunbathing strangers on a French Riviera beach does not fit your criteria for a relaxing seaside getaway 1) you are not alone and 2) never fear: there are still stretches of uncrowded, undeveloped and untrampled coastline along the Mediterranean.
Herself a society woman - with a 40-year marriage to a French cavalry officer and champagne producer, Vicomte d'Orthez - Lister revelled in her possessions, including a villa on the Riviera, a house in Belgravia and a social life to match her theatrical reputation.
Commercial triumph, after the example of his old chum Amis -- "500-words-a-day-on-the-Riviera," as he joked once it was clearly out of reach; sounding a note of Yeatsian grandeur in his poetry; and not growing up to be his father.
Several of Quinlan's investments have been seized by creditors, leading to a string of fire sales – among them a yacht, a villa on the Riviera at Cap Ferrat and one of Andy Warhol's dollar sign paintings.
Having followed these openings from my home in Paris, I found in them a tempting excuse for a long weekend on the Riviera, so I planned a gastronomic crawl from Nice to Antibes, with a different local friend joining me at most meals.
