Word: avignone
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...Chalmers, N.Z. From there, the flu has spread slowly. It turned up in Australia and later appeared in South America. By last December, the virus had surfaced in France, where flu soon accounted for 60% to 70% of doctors' house calls in the cities of Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Avignon and Toulouse. Moderate increases in flu cases have been reported in other Western European countries...
...three, in various combinations, have been lovers. As the novel opens, Bruce, who has retired, has been summoned to the Nogaret chateau near Avignon by the news of Piers' suicide. Sylvie, who slid sweetly into madness years before, lives near by in a mental hospital. Bruce, as imagined by Blanford, is swamped by memories. The most haunting and troublesome are of the young lovers' involvement years be fore in Egypt with a Gnostic cult that views the universe as "a quiet maggotry," and believes that the sorry state of the world began when the rightful, benign lord...
...Gaston Defferre, 63, mayor of Marseille and Socialist leader who ran for President against Charles de Gaulle in 1964-65; and Edmonde Charles-Roux, 51, novelist and former editor in chief of the French edition of Vogue (1954-66); he for the third time, she for the first; in Avignon, France...
...group of pilgrims about the "ignoble and blasphemous outrage." Two days later, an outfit called "Catholic Moralists" threw homemade bombs at the Rome residence of the Danish ambassador and left a note calling Denmark "the pigsty of Europe." Meanwhile, French authorities forbade production of the movie near Avignon as planned this autumn...
...necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs. Yet in its way, the Avignon show may perform some service to Picasso's reputation. It is hard to see it and retain as workable the myth that everything he painted was touched with genius, and of importance. Unlike Titian or Michelangelo, Picasso failed in old age. To perceive this is to be freed, to some extent...