Word: decampment
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...first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, but the Spanish Civil War forced him to decamp to Paris. It was there that he showed some of fashion's most influential silhouettes, including the cocoon coat, the chemise and the baby-doll dress. His presentations were held a full month after other Paris houses', but that didn't deter devoted clients like Wallis Simpson, Princess Grace...
...House against megacorporations. (Among them is TIME's parent company, Time Warner, which owns a major cable business, the WB broadcast network and several cable channels, including HBO and TNT.) A war that has TV programmers scrambling for cover--or at least pixelation--and has led Howard Stern to decamp from his broadcast-radio shock show for a satellite-radio gig in January...
...Holden Caulfield (Murakami was translating J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as he wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove his wife and daughter to decamp years earlier, and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams...
...alienated as Holden Caulfield (Murakami was translating J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as he wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove wife and daughter to decamp years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic...
Princeton’s appointment of Singer to the DeCamp chair of bioethics in 1999 sparked an uproar among the school’s alumni. Publisher Steve Forbes, the former Republican presidential candidate and major donor to Princeton, said he would withhold gifts to the school as long as Singer remained on the faculty...