Word: dieu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PARIS: Dieu merci for the World Cup. As this year's Tour de France wilts under a barrage of midnight drug raids and cycling teams' quitting in protest, TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton says, France's successful staging of the Coupe de Monde is saving the nation from cultural humiliation and putting the blame for the fiasco where it belongs: on the rotten state of international cycling. "The whole thing just stinks," he says. "The intense nationalism, the publicity and the big-money sponsors have pressed riders to achieve superhuman feats, and many have turned to performance-enhancing drugs...
...Miserables After 10 years on Broadway, the Alain Boublil-Claude-Michel Schonberg musical had fallen into serious disrepair. So directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird became their own show doctors, replacing much of the cast and giving the production a thorough overhaul. Mon Dieu! Les Miz is back and as rousing as ever. Now, about Miss Saigon...
...deserves two thumbs up for the atmosphere, the staff and certainly the food. And then there's the bar. According to the brochure, "wildly popular rum cocktails...Joe recommends Westerhall Rum with a Renwood Cigar. Watch for details of our Cuban Rum & Cigar Tasting event coming soon!" Mon Dieu, quelle amusement...
...folks at Disney were patient. The company cut ticket prices and slowly, the tourists started coming. Last year, the park even made a healthy profit, $40 million. With 12 million visitors, it passed the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to become the country's number one tourist spot. Mon Dieu. Quelle horreur...
...Paul will prostrate himself before the altar. At other times he will sit or kneel with eyes closed, his forehead cradled in his left hand, his face contorted intensely, as if in pain. At this time, too, he brings to his God the prayer requests of others. His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest. It lifts up, and underneath there is a small container for a couple of prayer books and a big stack of intentions, written on yellow sheets. Last month the stack was 200 sheets thick...