Word: ests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have vociferously denied Wildenstein's charges, but French critics tend to agree with him. "The Russians boxed us in very neatly on this one," an art critic for Le Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's curators, they protested that they had merely accepted the show from Bordeaux, where it was organized by the Gaullist mayor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, with the blessings of Culture Minister André Malraux. However, one curator admitted: "The first thing I did when I noticed-uh-certain things, was rewrite the catalogue...
...more than half the court's cases, and the Solicitor General is the Government's chief appellate lawyer, the court sees, hears and heeds him more than any other man Although he is paid only $28,500 a year as the Justice Department's third high est official (behind the Attorney General and his deputy) and does not even rate a Government car, he is beyond question the nation's most influential advocate at the high-court bench...
...France's Charles Aznavour it is the transiency of love that hurts. L'amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes...
...meter race Saturday against the Russians," said the President, in a rare mood as he visited the National Sports Institute in Paris' Bois de Vincennes. "Of course, your 10,000-meter was not so good, but then you had that Russian Ivanov against you-et il est formidable." Strolling on, De Gaulle found himself unexpectedly staring up at France's national basketball team. "You and I certainly look at problems in the same manner," quipped the 6-ft. 4-in. general...
...knocked cold, conked by a flying Coke bottle, two others had minor injuries, 231 beatlenuts fainted, 94 got first aid, and five-months-pregnant Julia Stewart, wife of the Kingston Trio's John Stewart, was nearly trampled when she was jostled to the bedlam floor. C'est la guerre. Flying back to London, the shaggy O.B.E.s relaxed by counting the booty-well over $1,000,000 for a two-week tour in eight cities-and decided that, after all, war was swell...