Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burned and Monet inspired. The great Gothic cathedral of Notre Dame miraculously survived the wartime bombings, but all the city's old bridges and many buildings were destroyed. Farther south and east the Normandie slips beneath the cliffs high above Les Andelys, where Richard the Lion-Hearted's Chateau Gaillard stands watch over the valleys below. Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June belongs to the rhododendrons and wisteria, but come summer each color will have...
Then the Shah's government made the crucial mistake of asking Iraq to expel Khomeini. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein complied, thereby earning Khomeini's abiding hostility. In October 1978 the Ayatullah went to France and settled in Neauphle-le-Chateau, a Paris suburb, where for the first time he enjoyed the full glare of Western press attention. Shortly after his arrival, the continuing massive street demonstrations and battles between the Iranian soldiers and protesters turned the tide against the regime and led, within three months, to the Shah's exile. In February 1979 Khomeini made his triumphant return to Iran...
With such gung-ho scouting reports, it was only a matter of time before the big leaguers moved in. After two years of negotiations, Les Domaines des Barons de Rothschild, the firm that manages France's prestigious Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, has purchased a half interest in Los Vascos, a 500-acre vineyard located some 90 miles southwest of Santiago. French experts are already working on this year's vintage, and Christophe Salin, deputy managing director of Les Domaines, promises that "1989, which is currently being harvested, should be better...
...indirectly, at the Reagan inner circle that had ousted him as Secretary of State. "From my point of view," said Haig, "Bob Dole is head and shoulders above George Bush as a potential President." Pete du Pont (7%, fifth place) will soon be heading back to Delaware's chateau country. Jack Kemp (11%, fourth place) had counted on outflanking Bush and Dole on the right as the true-blue conservative candidate. But Robertson's message of moral regeneration proved more appealing than Kemp's pep talks on economics, and the Buffalo Congressman could only hope that a strong finish...
...since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting the doughty vessel Military Industrial Complex across the briny reaches of Vineyard Sound...