Word: bernard
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...first couple minutes of the Adams House Drama Society’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House,” genteel Brits lounged lazily over furniture, occasionally yawning to languid background parlor music. I hoped that the action would pick up in the next three hours...
...aesthetic suited Charlotte Gainsbourg's parents, icons Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, in the late '70s when Bonpoint was still a mom-and-pop operation off the Boulevard St. Germain, with founder Cohen in the studio and her husband Bernard keeping the books. Over the years, the business grew, and the couple opened stores in various capitals. In 2003, 33 years after opening their first boutique, the Cohens sold 70% of the company to Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners, an investment group specializing in growing small and medium-size companies for resale. At a recent press conference, Bonpoint executives noted...
...cors.) "Our mother didn't have a lot of money, but the word we heard most often was regardez. Look at all the beautiful buildings in Paris. Look at the paintings, the furniture," Marie-France will tell you if you push the garden gate to the home she and Bernard purchased with the proceeds from the sale of the company, appropriately two doors down from a school. "You were told to train your eye, and always there was a disassociation of beauty and taste from the idea of money. That is the secret...
...DIED. Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy and founded the Autism Society of America; in El Cajon, Calif. In 1958, Rimland diagnosed autism in his 2-year-old son Mark with the help of a college textbook. The personal discovery led to a professional crusade. "This was war," he later wrote. In 1964, he published Infantile Autism, a landmark book that argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to "refrigerator mothers" who didn't show adequate affection. An adviser to the makers of Rain...
...DIED. Bernard Rimland, 78, psychologist who pioneered modern autism research and advocacy; in El Cajon, California. Infantile Autism, Rimland's landmark 1964 book, argued autism had biochemical roots and upended the then-conventional wisdom that it was a child's response to inadequate parental affection. An adviser on 1998's Rain Man-his son was a model for Dustin Hoffman's Oscar-winning turn as an autistic savant-Rimland also controversially claimed food allergies and some metals could trigger autism, and vitamins could help treat...