Word: demis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more fascinating is Nixon's semi-demi comeback. Nobody wants any lectures from him yet about public morality, and he still couldn't get elected dogcatcher. But he is no longer a pariah. Reporters from the New York Times, television interviewers from CBS, and TIME too, seek his views on an area where he has expertise, the Soviet Union and China. Discreet in his criticism of Reagan, he seeks for himself a new role as moderate senior statesman...
...matter that the Floridian demi-Eden never got semibuilt. Today, nearly 60 years after the Florida land bubble burst, Boca Raton and its environs really are almost beyond realness. The international rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world...
...from the Pyrenees to the Alps, from the sands of St.-Malo to the beaches of Nice, with hardly a dull plat en route. Willan succeeds admirably in analyzing the tastes, products, humors and quirks of each region. She proffers such delicate provincial dishes as dandelion salad, poularde en demi-deuil and sole with stuffed artichoke bottoms (preferably using the slippery little fish known in Bordeaux as "lawyers' tongues"), as well as such robust peasant offerings as potato pie, braised partridge with lentils, and stufatu, a Corsican beef stew with macaroni...
...this instance he has chosen to abuse the power that has flowed to him as the most commercially successful playwrightscenarist in human history not only by fobbing off a retitled and rewritten version of his old demi-flop show, The Gingerbread Lady, but also by casting his wife Marsha Mason in the leading role. It is hard to say which is the more unforgivable...
Knowles explores the same undercurrent of violence in A Separate Peace. In the earlier novel, he concentrates on the relationship of two friends: Gene, a lonely intellectual, painfully unsure of his own identity, and Phineas, a demi-god, full of love and humor, the embodiment of the separate peace. Although seemingly protected from the destruction of the war by Devon's ivy-covered walls, the two classmates create their own violence. Driven by jealously and insecurity. Gene transforms a friend into the enemy. He deliberately destroys Phineas, shattering the illusion of peace at Devon...