Word: bouillon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several incarnations in many languages, but Art Historian Jean-Paul Bouillon presents the movement under its best-known name in Art Nouveau (Rizzoli; 247 pages; $60). Some 350 illustrations, 125 of them in color, trace its genealogy from the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, a journey that manages to bridge 19th century formalism and Bauhaus severity. Although Tiffany's lamps and Gaudi's facades are archetypal examples of art nouveau, the author widens artistic horizons, and readers' eyes, by demonstrating that fine artists from Whistler to Picasso were influenced by its rhythmic, serpentine style...
John le Carré, 51, on his hesitation at having his books made into movies: "No writer wants to see his ox turned into a bouillon cube...
...from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy in Lorraine; the word restaurant originated in Paris more than 200 years ago, when an innkeeper started offering bowls of bouillon known as restauratifs, and chowder is derived from chaudière, a cauldron in which fishermen pooled their catch...
Duran had to slim down for his rematch with Leonard. After the weigh-in at noon on the day of the fight, Duran gulped some bouillon, then went out for a steak and French fries. Later in the afternoon, he was still intensely hungry, and though his physician advised against it, he ate another steak dinner. The sudden feast after weeks of dieting may have led to the cramps. Said Dr. Nunez: "Roberto wasn't beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard. He was beaten by two sirloin steaks...
Papier-mâché roses decked the dusty streets of the capital. Free bouillon and clairin-soup and rum-were distributed to the populace. But for most Haitians there was little to celebrate. Not only is the island nation the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, but for 22 years it has chafed under a succession of Duvalier dictatorships. Accordingly, some 55,000 Haitian "boat people" have made the 800-mile crossing to Florida, most of them as illegal immigrants. Unlike the Cubans recently arrived, the Haitians do not enjoy the status of political refugees...