Word: au
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soviet leaders have reason to fear him: no man alive today has more au thority than Solzhenitsyn to draw world attention to the Kremlin's long record of inhumanity. In an era of detente, many would prefer to have that record forgot ten. Yet Solzhenitsyn ? martyr, survivor and great writer ? demands a hearing...
...AU PAIR MAN by HUGH LEONARD
...test of a two-character play is whether the playgoer develops the restive desire, or the furtive hope, that one or two other characters will momentarily enliven the stage. The Au Pair Man passes that test handsomely. One is captivated, fascinated and pleasurably teased by Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers (Julie Harris) and her friend Eugene (Charles Burning). They are good company and the rich density of their natures makes them seem like a stageful of people...
...determined by scarcity. From the '30s to the '50s, Hollywood produced hundreds of popular entertainments that audiences and critics considered standard fare. Now that the major studios have shrunk slowly in the West, the antique movies have been revalued upward. According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece...
...headline in France's satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé (The Chained Duck) was printed in big red type last week, and it read: WATERGATE au CANARD. To the delight of the editors, one of Le Canard's cartoonists, Andre Escaro, had stumbled on an attempt to install bugging devices in the paper's new offices. The result: a scoop that had the government embarrassedly denying any knowledge of the affair, opposition Deputies demanding explanations in the National Assembly-and a sale of 660,000 copies for Le Canard, 210,000 more than the usual...