Word: adieu
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...wrote Scarface basically as an adieu to cocaine. It had beaten the hell out of me, but I got my revenge by writing about it. I conceived the picture in terms of a comic opera. Some of my friends called it Scarfucci. I modeled it on Richard III. Brian De Palma, who directed it, has a slower camera than I do, so some of the script had to be cut. But I was very pleased with the movie. It's got me a lot of free champagne all over the world from gangsters who ask me how I know...
...course, Marcos was no typical elderly vacationer and his stay on the Hawaiian Islands will be no ordinary sojourn. As Baby Doc Duvalier had recently done in Haiti, Marcos had just bid a hasty adieu to a people and a nation he had ruled for many years with an iron fist and a greased palm...
...performance of the period was in Moshe Mizrahi's 1977 film, La Vie Devant Soi (Madame Rosa in English), in which she played a Jewish ex- prostitute and survivor of a concentration camp. The theme of Jewish life in France was also the subject of her best-selling novel, Adieu, Volodia, which appeared this year. She had previously published two memoirs, Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be (1976) and Le Lendemain, elle etait souriante...
After Premier Fabius bid the Soviet couple adieu that afternoon, a weary high French official delivered his assessment of Gorbachev's marathon effort. "I can tell you, he made good use of his public forum," the official said. "He knows what he wants. He is firm, but he is not without flexibility and subtlety." So far as his major objectives in Paris were concerned, however, the Soviet leader's charm and subtlety yielded little in the way of substantive results...
When the Class of 1985 graduated, Harvard bid an official, though silent, adieu to the age-old General Education requirement...