Word: ancien
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...Boston-based Fresh cosmetics, was growing up in Russia, sea buckthorn berry oil was a popular home remedy his mother applied to scrapes and burns. "It helped the healing process tremendously," he says. Today it has become the star component of Fresh's newest antiaging product, Elixir Ancien. Sea buckthorn, along with a host of other arctic berries, is the miracle medicine du jour in the fast-paced world of skin care...
...play follows the sinister, sadomasochistic, and (almost literally) suffocating interactions of two maids, who yearn for freedom from the Ancien Régime, embodied by the tyrannical “Madame” (Laurel Holland ’07). Apart from revolutionary ideas, the Papin sisters—famous 1930s French murderers—inspired Genet, just as they did in the works of Sartre and Lacan...
...soured so fast? One reason is the revival of the opposition Tories under their dynamic young leader, David Cameron. Another is a spate of recent government scandals, from undignified sexual shenanigans to more serious issues of misjudgment, recalling the venality and incompetence that dogged the dying days of the ancien Tory rgime in the mid-1990s. But, like his comrade George W. Bush, Blair faces his biggest problem because of Iraq. Voters think he stretched the case for war. And the failure to find weapons of mass destruction, as well as the mounting strain on British forces in Iraq...
...haute cuisine virgins by charging big bucks for food they don't quite get. Alain Senderens, on the other hand, shut down the venerable Lucas Carton, an establishment boasting the full three Michelin stars, and opened a brasserie on the same site. He now risks alienating adherents of his ancien régime by letting the people eat cake - a Sichuan pepper dacquoise cake to be precise - for €17. The dish cost €60 at his old place. Senderens is only the latest top chef to drop out of the star system. Jöel Robuchon cashed...
...thorough but pedestrian.” As students of his English 185: “Wit and Humor” are well aware, “pedestrian” is not Damrosch’s style. His narrative is an exhilarating carriage ride through the ancien regime, and it remains lively through 500 pages of well-turned prose. And a readable biography was Damrosch’s goal. His main concern, he says, was to make Rousseau available to people who know nothing about him, rather than to do original research. “Reviewers and publishers make something...