Word: aix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brewer starter Pete Vuckovich pitched eight and two-thirds innings and took the loss, allowing aix hits, five for extra bases...
...lived at Antibes, only a few miles from Nice, for the past 17 years. But the French will not be able to thrill to Greene's charges in his new nonfiction book entitled J'Accuse: Portrait of a Delinquent in His Protected Milieu. The appellate court of Aix-en-Provence ruled early this month in a rare decision that the book could not be sold in France or even brought into the country because it was libelous of one of the people mentioned in the story...
...addition to upholding the injunction, the Aix-en-Provence court ordered Greene to pay Guy $650 in lawyers' fees and trial expenses, as well as $15 for every copy that might be sold illegally...
...reserve officer, who says lightly: "I like burning things. I am a pyromaniac." Parker is the man directly in charge of what he says will be "the largest firework display in 250 years," a figure that roughly but deliberately recalls the pyrotechnic extravagance that celebrated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749. It was for that occasion that Handel composed his Music for the Royal Fireworks, which will also accompany the meteor shower of bombshells, flash reports, bombettes, pirouettes, Catherine wheels, saucissons, serpents and good old-fashioned detonations over Hyde Park on the wedding eve this week. Parker...
...color were separated by fine metal lines. Largely because of the intensity of Van Gogh's genius, cloisonism became one of the key modernist styles, the sign of a new concern with the semantics of art (which were being explored in a totally different way by Cezanne in Aix and by Seurat with his light-filled dots), indicating a degree of aesthetic fundamentalism that had not been seen since Ingres...