He's not aiming at the street drinker or the schoolkid - he's targeting that endangered species: the Swedish bon viveur.— The Local - Sweden's news in English
And now, we've got our hands on Richards 'on-location contract rider listing the perks that the Rolling Stones guitarist and legendary, uh, bon viveur needs in his trailer.— Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
An urbane, witty, bookish, Cambridge-educated bon viveur, with a Spanish Galician wife, he is a writer whose high spirits can easily make one forget both the immense bravery of his consistently fearless reporting in such a dangerous environment over thirty years-Rashid was recently sentenced to death in absentia by the Pakistan Taliban-and the deep scholarship and research that give his work its depth.— The New York Review of Books
But in Handel's case this curious notion rides piggyback on a pursed-lip disapproval of his moneymaking, his fondness for ridiculously implausible opera plots, his high-handed way with stroppy sopranos, and his general air of a bon viveur.— Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph

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