Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Niort, a sleepy town in west central France, Dr. Alain de Lignières took a hard look at the phenomenon. The disease began with agonizing headaches and repeated vomiting. It continued with failing vision, bellyache, urinary difficulties, ended with excruciating pain, fits of delirium, blindness, hallucinations, usually death. De Lignières noted that three of his patients had died in this fashion after taking Stalinon, immediately phoned his suspicions to health authorities in Paris. Emergency orders went out to 14,000 pharmacies to stop sale of the drug...
...borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people who are in love with someone else...
...Alain wants a young actress, but the actress, who has already been the property of Alain's assistant, Bernard, falls for Alain's cousin from Normandy. Does this mean that Alain goes back to his wife Fanny? No, he winds up as a barfly and close friend of a prostitute. As for Bernard, he does not want the actress; he wants Josee, who is beautiful, drives fast cars and gets more money than anyone needs from her family in North Africa. Naturally, she does not want any part of Bernard. For her it is a vulgar-but-vital...
...broken beer bottle. Cynics blamed the apathy on the heat which blanketed Paris as well as Bonn, but a more accurate explanation was that everyone knew that the treaties would pass with a comfortable majority. Not even the French National Assembly could ignore the cold logic of Socialist Deputy Alain Savary: "The choice which France has is not between the European Community and the status quo, but between the European Community and solitude...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...