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...France, V-E day was a holiday, but in many respects it seemed business as usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...
...JOAN OF ARC...
Though Self-Help is consistently informed by this ironic tone, Moore deals with a variety of situations and shadings of moods. The first story of the collection and one of the best, "How to Be Other Woman," traces the tha arc of semi-clandestine relationship between a married man a woman: "After four moves, three concerts, and two and a half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events," How and "Amahl and the Night Visitors A Guide to the Tenor of Love" both deal with the slow death of relationships, from the point...
They are among the world's more engaging birds, with vanilla-white stomachs, dark throats, and bodies that arc down from their wings at takeoff like giant commas. They are also among the rarest: only an estimated 700 to 900 black- necked cranes survive in the wild, most of them living on the 10,000-ft.- high plateaus in the northwestern region of Tibetan China. As humans encroach on their nesting and wintering grounds, the number of birds continues to dwindle, and officials of the People's Republic of China fear that the species may become extinct...
...geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting the palm frond at an angle subtended by the arc of the broken wheel...