Word: bateau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pursued by photographers on motorcycles, Monica narrowly escapes death when the car she is driving careers off the Seine river embankment and crashes into a passing bateau-mouche full of tourists. Several of them are hospitalized for le choque (shock) and, represented by American attorney William Ginsburg, file suit against Monica for le steering lunatique. Their case is eventually dismissed by a French magistrate after Ginsburg misses an important court appearance because he was giving an interview to Radio Liechtenstein...
...real New Year's treat, you may want to consider a seat on a bateau-mouche, one of the many boats that cruise the Seine serving up romantic dinners and gorgeous views. Or try to reserve a table at Maxim's, where diners can enjoy a night of dancing with a live orchestra. Warning: a taste of the good life on this particular night could set you back $1,000--and that's before you figure in the hotel bill...
...filthiest studio I have ever seen," said a 1908 visitor to the Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre, where Picasso worked and lived with his mistress-model Fernande Olivier. Indeed, Picasso's ramshackle tenement had no gas or electricity and only one water tap and a rudimentary toilet. But the studio was an often riotous gathering place for "la bande a Picasso," a self-dubbed group of poets--including Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob--attracted to the Spanish artist's creative orbit. Picasso showed these friends his paintings. One--a large work that absorbed him for six months--elicited only embarrassed silence...
Currents were so strong in parts of the city that outboard motors strained uselessly--an oddly fitting trial for the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud, one of whose most famous poems was Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates. Downstream in Belgium, the Meuse overpowered a number of evacuation efforts in the town of Dinant. Householder Tony Delussu was exasperated after two floods. ``I'd just finished putting new wallpaper in my living room,'' he explained. ``I won't stay around...
...Haiti such threats, however vague, are not to be taken lightly -- especially with the human-rights monitors gone. As the U.N. monitors were being expelled, the bodies of as many as a dozen young men -- the government claimed only three -- were dumped in the little village of Morne-a-Bateau. Local residents said they had been ordered to bury the bodies by soldiers who brought them in from somewhere else...