Word: coverable
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...start the new year, here's an ardent wish: that you will offer us as often as possible a present as big as this magnificent cover of TIME, with its title for a first-class burial: "The Death of French Culture." "Death," you said, not even "decline," a word with which we are quite familiar. "Death" is a strong word...
...thought it might be big. We just had no idea it would be this big. Still, we're delighted that Donald Morrison's cover story on French culture last month provoked such a lively exchange of views, in print, in TV studios, on the Internet...
...idea - a bit cruel since you already have so many monopolies and such a vast empire - of headlining the death of French culture. Of course it's an exaggeration, as you know. Imagine if a French weekly had marked the death of the great writer Norman Mailer with a cover story entitled "The Death of American Culture...
...pity that there was no promise of a reward for an answer to the question on the magazine's cover. But never mind; the cause was one for which it was worth mobilizing. We have asked hundreds of our cultural partners in almost 110 countries worldwide to give us the names of worldwide stars in their own fields who happen to be French. We thought for a while that we might buy an advertisement to publish this list of "French stars" but, apart from having to pay a great deal for the right of reply, we would never have been...
...book has brought in a miraculous haul of men and women of culture who originate in France, and whose impact is making itself felt all over the world. You can get in touch with one or two of them at any time. That might prevent you from spoiling a cover once more with a claim that is not true, even if your hoax turned out to be quite pleasant and highly stimulating...