Word: coeurs
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...programs would somehow foreshadow the end of tribal culture (and, some said darkly, permit the white man to grab Indian lands). Rather than take Indians from the reservations (30% return, mostly because of loneliness), the U.S. should spend more money on industrial and agricultural development of reservation land. Snorted Coeur d'Alene Tribesman Joseph Garry, who is president of the National Congress of American Indians and a Democratic member of the Idaho House of Representatives: "As for the bureau giving us 'freedom,' we are free from all taxes, including tax from income on Indian land...
...join the gentlemen on horseback at the Bois de Boulogne with Toulouse-Lautrec, or scale the white stone heights of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur with Utrillo, or decorate the Eiffel Tower like a Christmas tree, as Seurat's fancy did. Telescoping the centuries, one can see the coronation of Napoleon or Marie Antoinette in prison. Here is Paris drinking the cocktail of the sun, and here is Paris wrapped in the misty veils of a Salome. These books present a courtesan, the irresistible city of a thousand wiles, painted by her infatuated admirers...
...group of Renaissance secular pieces fared moderately well. They have no accompaniment, and occasionally suffered from insecure pitch. Lassus' Mon coeur went too slowly for my taste; and Monteverdi's dramatic early Baroque madrigal Dorinda lay a bit high for the sopranos. Schmidt wisely used only an octet for Mauduit's Enparadis, a charming example of vers mesure, in which the musical rhythms follow those of the spoken text...
...million in TV before it reached the U.S. living room, has another $30 million tied up in color TV; telephone companies buried millions of dollars worth of coaxial cable, engineered with TV in view, long before they had network customers. Monsanto tested 15,000 chemical compounds at its Creve Coeur, Mo. laboratories to find a herbicide that would kill weed grasses but not harm corn or soybeans, spent six years and $750,000 on the product, which has yet to be marketed...
...Back Way. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, after householders reported that a car was tearing around the neighborhood in reverse, Assistant Police Chief Reine Schmidt investigated, found behind the wheel a teen-age girl who explained: "My folks let me have the car, and I ran up a little too much mileage. I was just unwinding some...