Word: bonnet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining in place: Premier Raymond Barre, who had been appointed the previous week; Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte, author of the bestselling Le Mai Français (The French Sickness); Health Minister Simone Veil, whom polls have shown to be the most popular figure in French politics; Interior Minister Christian Bonnet, who has been widely praised for his department's skill in negotiating the release of kidnaped Belgian Baron Edouard-Jean Empain (TIME, April...
...cyclist, excellent runner and good tennis player." The rest is just "grinding it out in hard slog for 21 hours a week, running when the rain sets in, being buzzed by smart bastards in cars and even, like a few months ago, ending spread-eagled [but unharmed] over the bonnet of a car that zoomed out of a driveway...
...psychopathic "regulator"-a hired gun charged by a Montana cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlers-Marlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance of forces Director Penn must surely have wanted to maintain between Brando and Jack Nicholson, the man regarded as Brando...
...earned colleagues' respect for her "dodge-proof questions and barbed repartee at the press conferences of five Presidents. When F.D.R. once lamely admitted, "That wasn't much of an answer, was it?" Craig shot back, "No." Her hair in a bun under one of dozens of Easter-bonnet hats, she also queried officials in a come-out-and-fight soprano voice for many years on Meet the Press...
...brain-trusters decided to make the female detective a black; if they had thought of it, they probably would have asked Teresa Graves, who plays the title role in Get Christie Love! (Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), to improve the package by donning a war bonnet from time to time, thus touching base with another minority. We are spared this spectacle only because no one connected with this series seems to have been thinking about anything other than the main chance...