Word: bourgeoise
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The scene was worthy of Daumier's pen. Discreetly dressed bourgeois bid ders hid all signs of buying fever, ex cept for a lady who offered $1,600 for a charcoal drawing, Buffoon and His Monkey, in a Landscape, then protested that she did not mean to get that...
Snow on the Volcano. Nothing in Giap's experience or theoretical manual of strategy had prepared him for the quality or magnitude of the U.S. intervention. Though Vo, his family name, means "force," and Giap, his given name, means "armor," the architect of North Viet Nam's army...
A Bond Honored, British Playwright John Osborne's tumid adaptation of an atrocious horror show by 17th century Spaniard Lope de Vega, has a hero who commits rape, murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London...
Bed for Snuggling. It took the upstart Napoleon to bring it back to its former glory. In 1805, he had the palace redecorated in Empire style for himself and Josephine. The day of his divorce from her, Napoleon returned to the Trianon, spent the night there alone. His remorse was...
On May Day, in fact, most of Belgrade was off on a pleasant bourgeois weekend in the woods or on the beaches.