Word: azure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work with love in his heart is a painter's mission, to make the world better." Besides his artwork Chagall is also dictating the second volume of his memoirs (the first volume was written in 1921-22). Speaking of his discovery of the Coóte d'Azur after he left Russia in 1922, he recalled: "I came here to search for flowers and birds, the crow and the fox, town rats and country rats...
...last Monday when its 50-year-old mechanism seemed stuck again. Then, after hours of unsuccessful tinkering, they decided to break through the vault wall-and made a discovery that caused consternation on yachts and in villas up and down France's fabled Côte d'Azur...
Nashville. We're still in that dry season before the new movies premiere, so it's a good week to catch anything you may have missed the last couple of months while you were browning yourself on the Cote d'Azur or wherever. Altman's latest is definitely worth your while. The finale is a bit contrived, but individual vignettes are alternately revealing, funny, and devastating. The critical success of Nashville has led to a series of revivals of older Altman movies. M*A*S*H is perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have...
...promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...
...called an "executive action." That is the term for an action calculated to neutralize an adversary. The means may include defamation of character by propaganda or luring a leader out of his post of influence with the promise of a fine villa on the Côte d'Azur and a bottomless Swiss bank account. The form, in theory, also includes assassination, though the CIA possessed no machinery for this kind of executive action. Harvey had no authority to act, only to explore, assess and advise...