Word: en
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sparkling wine used for the toasts (Schramsberg Crémant Demi-sec 1981) lacked luster. But the California red (Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon 1978) was a western rainbow, smooth and joyous. The beef farci en croũte was a might overdone, but the candy sculpture of birds and flowers (all edible) that decorated the dessert servings was exquisite...
...short, the rituals that were bequeathed to the ex-colonies in the hope they would remain house-trained." Soyinka argues that "the veneer of democracy" bestowed by the former colonial powers "has badly peeled." Its worst manifestation, in his view: the one-party states that have too often become en trenched civilian dictatorships...
Under Houphouët-Boigny's leadership, the Ivory Coast successfully developed a mixed economy that encouraged foreign investment, local private owner ship and economic diversification. Unlike many African leaders, he assiduously en couraged a strong agricultural sector and spent the money necessary to maintain roads, rural electrification and irrigation systems. Houphouët-Boigny was also not afraid to keep strong ties with the country's former colonial master. There are more French in the Ivory Coast now than when the country became independent...
After the Saint's Jo Ann Campbell was whistled for a hook at 14:49 the Crimson power play sprung into action. Defenseman Sue Newell, filling in for Landry on right wing for the man-up unit, fed left blue-liner Megan Berthold, who fired the puck on net En route, center Kathy Carroll tipped the biscuit past Clements and into the twines...
Heymann, 38, a former university lecturer and book reviewer, is unrepentant. Says he: "I think I did a credible job. I wanted to give a 'mise en scène,' and it catches the flavor of her whole life." Trouble is, Heymann's "flavor" often seems to leave a bad taste. His 1976 book Ezra Pound: The Last Rower contained what Heymann said was an original interview with the poet. Critic Hugh Kenner, however, found a remarkably similar one in an obscure Italian journal printed years before. Scholars have charged that Heymann's 1980 volume...