Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's greatest fear now is a military coup, which would inevitably spark a civil war and adversely affect any U.S. presence for many years to come. Says a State Department official recently returned from Tehran: "There is no question that a military takeover would be most dangerous for U.S. interests. It would blow away the moderates and invite the majority to unite behind a radical faction...
...energy and human interest rather than elegance of design. It contains a previously unpublished, 17-year-old interview with Marilyn Monroe and some all too predictable pictures of the likes of Brooke Shields and Princess Caroline (after all, the word cliche means photograph in French). The most dramatic journalistic coup is a picture essay using exclusive photographs taken in Jonestown just before the mass suicide. A colorful jab at conspicuous consumption in Beverly Hills is reminiscent of the original Look, and so is a story about a do-it-yourself home-building school in Maine...
...religious feeling that has survived a 120-year attempt to secularize Mexico, but the popular impact of the Pope's good-natured and forceful personality. "It was the greatest success any foreign leader has ever scored in Mexico," a local journalist noted. Besides being a public relations coup, the tour had had its substantive side. For it was the occasion of John Paul's first major policy speech, on the agonizing question of Christianity and social revolution...
Designer Cardin at 56 has attached his name to practical fantasies that can be worn, walked on, slept in, sat upon, munched, drunk, flown, pedaled or driven in 69 countries. His latest coup is an agreement to serve as exclusive consultant to China's embryonic fashion industry. The Parisian may have his haute couture models reproduced in China, where the workmanship is exquisite and cheap, creating a new export trade for the Middle Kingdom. If the contract works out, 10% of Cardin-Cathay will be reserved for sale inside China, which is probably wise, considering the fact that...
...Coup, Updike...