Word: boucher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recorded remarks, of the political ferment that pervaded the intellectual and street life of Paris in the 1890s. And in terms of sexual politics, the seedy, overheated rooms of Lautrec's brothels are not much different from the satin bower in which, rather more than a century before, Boucher painted the rosy buttocks of the royal mistress Miss O'Murphy. It's just that they smell more real, even as Lautrec takes his sardonic delight in aestheticizing them in a different way, as emblems of what the age called decadence...
...Richard Boucher, the State Department deputy spokesperson, said about half the 520 Haitians in Coast Guard custody have been interviewed by U.S. immigration officials...
...March 8, State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher was asked about Kuwaiti mistreatment of Palestinians. "There are reports of people getting a hard time at checkpoints," he said. "We do not have information on beatings and killings...
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher urged Americans traveling abroad to take extra precautions. U.S. military bases in Germany have already beefed up security. American citizens in the Bonn area have been advised by the U.S. embassy to vary their daily routes. To protect their workers, three U.S. corporations -- Ford, Chrysler and 3M Co. -- last week banned or sharply restricted employee travel to nearly all destinations outside...