Word: ducal
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...tell me I'm old for my age," Jaimie wearily replies to a bit of elementary flattery. Peter tries for a fast recovery: "All right, as long as you don't tell me I'm young for mine." Jaimie looks at him with almost ducal contempt and replies, "That's obvious." With more of that kind of kinetic tension and a great deal less clinical dramaturgy, Rivals might have made a good movie...
...documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome. By 1617 he was back in France, marrying the daughter of a prosperous ducal silversmith, Diane Le Nerf. The marriage paid well in contacts and commissions. In 1620 La Tour moved to Lunéville, his wife's town, and begged the Duke of Lorraine for tax exemption-"since nobody of the petitioner's art and profession lives there, or in the region...
...squalling children in his tiny plastered hut, "five hundred years are only yesterday." His half-feared, half-scorned authorities are the bishop-who uses "modern" as the synonym for "sinful" -and the handful of government bureaucrats with their forms and seals pettily executing justice and collecting taxes in moldering ducal palaces. Time has stuck at late feudalism. In "an aura of stopped drains and tinkling bells," bony, dull-eyed children full of resentment grow into "tentative" men and "bleak, stubborn women" whose faces resemble eroded hillsides...
...enclave in New Canaan, built over a span of 21 years and now completed by the sculpture gallery. Johnson dislikes calling it an estate, preferring the word compound-but an estate it is, with all the seigneurial overtones. There has, in fact, been nothing like it since the ducal properties of 18th century England...
...report prompted one West German newspaper to comment that Americans abroad are paid "ducal salaries." It has stirred a somewhat different reaction from U.S. executives in Europe. "I read that and gulped hard," says Ed ward Roach, European marketing director for Honeywell Inc., who is transferring this month from Frankfurt to Brussels. "Only if you're willing to live like a native can you do pretty well." The trouble, according to some overseas executives, is that living like a native often means squeezing a family into a cramped apartment and doing without some amenities that Americans take for granted...