Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Field must be pretty cheap because instead of a marching band with majorettes and all, they just had an organ. It wasn't even a marching organ. Even worse, they played idiotic selections like the Mexican hatdance song. Where's the spirit in that? What happened to the Notre Dame fight song...
...Editor of the paper's monthly supplement Le Monde Diplomatique since 1973, Julien is further to the left and more virulently anti-American than almost any other senior journalist on the staff. The son of a railway worker, he was educated in the U.S. at the University of Notre Dame, and joined Le Monde as a foreign news editor in 1951. His favorite editorial litany, honed to perfection in front-page editorials at Diplomatique, concerns the revolutionary struggle of Latin America to escape American influence. Says a longtime rival: "Julien turned Le Monde Diplomatique into an organ of demagogic Third...
...with fellow artists, critics and dealers, but welcomed the obsequities of a faithful coterie. In 1958 he purchased a medieval chateau near Aix-en-Provence called Vauvenargues. "I've bought Cézanne's view!" he said. He spent most of his final years, however, at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, a hilltop villa at Mougins on the Riviera, named after a chapel that once stood on the site. He worked until dawn on the last day of his life, April...
...state funeral for Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito last week was the most emotional that Europe had experienced in a decade, unrivaled since the memorial Mass for Charles de Gaulle at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral in 1970. In attendance was a comparably vast assemblage of statesmen and royalty. It was a reflection of Tito's unique global role that his funeral attracted leaders from both East and West blocs, and from the Third World, in almost equal numbers. Official mourners came from 123 countries: four Kings, 32 Presidents and other heads of state, 22 Prime Ministers, more than...
Suddenly a strange little creature pops out. He looks like one of the gargoyles with whom the Hunchback used to play at Notre Dame. He even spouts a kind of Chaucerian Middle English, with many of his verbs and adjectives piling up at the end of sentences...