Word: amourous
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...vamp in The Lover (L'Amant), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of the Marguerite Duras best seller. With its carnal couplings and a hint of hard core, the film was a Hollywood-size hit in France. Annaud also took some flak: for shooting a very French conte d'amour in English; for choosing pouty English actress Jane March as the girl; and mostly for rejecting Duras's script in favor of one by Gerard Brach. (Duras then wrote a new version of her story, The North China Lover, in the elliptical, present- tense style of a screenplay.) Shorn...
Thomas doesn't have much time anymore for personal pleasures like reading Louis L'Amour novels and tooling around in his jet-black Corvette. His life revolves almost entirely around workdays at the court that can run from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. He is usually in bed by 8. On a court where the Justices communicate largely by memos, he is forging friendships with White and Rehnquist. His most frequent personal contact is with his clerks, reputed to be among the court's most conservative...
...more cultural events I attended, the more I became aware of the disgruntled members, the lack of attendence at these functions and the way people who never even came to a AAA meeting spoke of it with so much skepticism. Words like "clique," "stereotype" and "Oh l'Amour" were the only images people associated with AAA, and I became sick of it. Not of AAA, but of the people who undermined it by criticizing the organization so readily without giving it a chance...
Strangely, Ashdown's personal appeal increased only after a newspaper's February expose of his brief affair with a former secretary five years ago. Unlike Bill Clinton's alleged amour in the U.S., the Ashdown affair left voters sympathizing with the party leader they had not known well before. Even so, whoever comes up with a Commons majority after next week, the bold leadership Britain knew during the 1980s stands to shade into a more uncertain thing. Tories and Labour are groping for new directions. Ashdown commands the middle of the road, but he may get trampled under the stampede...
...interests that lie far from banking. He likes raising Corriente cattle, a kind used in rodeos. He likes growing raspberries. He likes making mobiles (two of which hang from the ceiling of his office). He has read all the 50 or so novels of his favorite author, Louis L'Amour, and now he is starting to reread them. "What do I like about him? The hero always wins. The women are always pure. The horses are great. They are out in the great West, and you learn...