Word: cr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie about not wanting to be involved in the business of moviemaking. Eventually, though, the artist must return home chaste and chastened. The climax of this two-hour 20-minute odyssey is a series of ecstatic helicopter shots over Lower Manhattan. It is a refreshing vision-like a crème de menthe sipped at twilight in the Windows on the World, 107 stories above the only dream isle our moviemaking Prospero could live in for long or forever...
Some board members regarded the prolongation of the recession as the painful price of wringing inflation out of the system. Others, like Hans Mast, a University of Zurich lecturer and executive vice president for Crédit Suisse, feared that the deflationary cure has become too dangerous. He noted that trade protectionism is growing and that there is also the risk of an international financial squeeze that could dry up bank lending. It was time, said Mast, "to go on the economic offensive" against present policies...
Dinner is a cozy affair, with crab soufflé, lamb, two wines, crêpes, champagne. Bishop tinkles his glass and affectionately tells everyone how Muni had set the world record in attending schools no one had ever heard of. Like many a deb before her, Mimi is not obsessed with academe. She favors tennis, jogging and "a lot of needlepoint." She spent a year at a school high enough in the Swiss Alps to ensure that everyone majored in skiing, and she also attended Alfred University in upstate New York, where she had heard that they had a great...
...York Times's bestseller list, where it has been lodged for 38 weeks. At 5 ft. 7 in., 138 Ibs., Simmons seems a model of svelte fitness, but he knows whereof he sweats. As a boy in New Orleans, he sampled so many crêpes suzette at the family's restaurant that by his 18th birthday he weighed 268 Ibs. Then he found a note under his windshield wiper: "Fat people die young. Please don't die." Simmons lost 112 Ibs. in 80 days. His fasting was so extreme that his hair fell...
...presidential election was unmistakably under way last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus launching Mitterrand's third bid for the Elysée. Not to be outdone, Communist Leader Georges Marchais...