Word: canards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott Fitzgerald's oft-quoted remark that there are no second acts in American lives is a canard. Especially in American lives, there are second acts, encores, curtain calls, sequels and comebacks. In this case the first act was Marky Mark, rapper. The second is Mark Wahlberg, actor, perhaps even artiste. "I'm not shooting for the stars," Wahlberg says. "I'm just kind of doing things that I feel I can do good. I think I outgrew the Marky Mark thing, y' know?" Could be. Based on the way his second act is going, it will...
Together, the plays and books paint the fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively...
...French newspaper reports that the two pilots released by the Serbs on the eve of the Paris peace treaty ceremony were tortured during their three-and-a-half month imprisonment. At one point, said the paper, Le Canard Enchaine, Gen. Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs now under indictment for war crimes, told the two men that they would be tortured and killed. The newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military...
...that is not what the populist, even radical, national party wants. Whitman pleased conservatives in Tuesday's rebuttal by repeating the canard that Clinton was responsible for the biggest tax hike in history. (Right answer: Ronald Reagan in 1982.) But her other positions make conservatives balk. For one, she is pro-choice. She also does not believe sexual orientation on its own should bar a person from a job--even in the military. And while Whitman backs such ``Contract with America'' standards as the balanced-budget amendment, she may just back away from their consequences. Billions of dollars in federal...
...Iraqi authorities proposed to give the two French companies a rich production monopoly developing the Majnoun Islands and Nahr Umar oilfields, which could produce 1 million bbl. a day. In exchange, the Iraqis wanted the French to lobby for lifting U.N. sanctions. Since then, according to the weekly Canard Enchaine, representatives of the two companies have made more than 40 trips to Baghdad and preliminary contracts have been drawn up. The French government has frozen the deal until sanctions are lifted, though a Foreign Ministry spokesman insists that "we have nothing against such contacts...