Word: brie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This month his dream materialized in the village of La Trétoire in the heart of the Brie cheese country 55 miles east of Paris. There, on seven acres of woods and meadows, Bernard Fischler opened a 62-room hotel, called Mon Club, designed exclusively for 220 children from ages three to 16. Adult guests are strictly off limits...
Lord and Lady Clark sampled the Harvard Student Agencies' finest Brie and exotic liquors. Clark continued to expand on the lecture topic to hordes of admirers, but wearily confessed, "I'm too old to do research. I prefer to pick people's brains...
...shoes, German beer and French wines more expensive. But nobody knows by how much?or how soon. For some imports there is still a few months' supply left?surcharge-exempt?in Stateside stores and warehouses. Even for perishable items like cheese, stockpiles vary immensely: ten days' supply for French Brie, two months' for Swiss Gruyere. Foreign producers are delaying their decisions on price increases until the new value of the dollar is established. In any case, the extra cost to U.S. consumers will rarely be as much as 10%. The surcharge is imposed on wholesale prices, which are seldom more...
...matter where Antoine goes he is haunted by the brie-a-brace and human beings that form the junk-heap of his society. As in 400 Blows, there are garbage cans and arguing couples at every turn. As in Stolen Kisses. he constantly meets up with the dead and the lonely harbingers of his own doom. In this case there is a recluse in his apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion...