Word: edouard
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...Edouard Balladur got right down to business: at his first Cabinet meeting, the new French Prime Minister ordered his 29 ministers to trim their own operating budgets 10% as a first step toward slashing a projected $55 billion deficit. President Francois Mitterrand named Gaullist Deputy Balladur to lead the government following elections that gave the conservative alliance 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats, leaving Mitterrand's Socialists with only 54 seats...
...huge majority of about 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats in this past Sunday's runoff. That will leave Socialist President Francois Mitterrand to "cohabit" with a hostile rightist majority until his term ends in 1995. His probable choice as Prime Minister: R.P.R. Deputy and former Finance Minister Edouard Balladur...
With Bill Clinton in charge, Roussel Uclaf may be reconsidering. Its president, Edouard Sakiz, met with FDA Commissioner David Kessler and agreed in principle that the U.S. should have RU 486. Sakiz prefers that another firm handle distribution. If he finds one, a large clinical trial could soon begin...
Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life...
...public, mainly in New York City and Washington, has been treated to one of the historic events in the life of the modern museum: the collaboration between U.S. institutions and the Reunion des Musees Nationaux on a series of retrospectives of the great French artists of the 19th century. Edouard Manet in 1983; Vincent van Gogh in 1984 and 1986; Paul Gauguin, Gustave Courbet and Edgar Degas in 1988; Claude Monet in 1990 -- all these, done at the highest pitch of curatorial skill, have redefined the School of Paris...