Word: ets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every time we send a man out, we consider it an expedition, a real trip into the desert. We always go fully equipped, taking our own water and supplies, as it were." So says Marc Alexandre, 37, managing director of the Union Internationale d' Analyse Economique et Financière, a Paris-based company better known as Eurofinance. Alexandre's desert is Western Europe, where companies keep information secret that would be routinely available in the U.S. The job of Eurofinance's well-equipped men is to unlock the secrets and break the silence, collecting for clients...
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pecuchet...
Both the ladies play revolutionaries touring Mexico as chanteuses in a vaudeville troupe. Much fuss is made over the coincidence of their both being named Marie, but it's never played for the Plautian confusions suggested when someone Anglicizes "Marie et Marie! Tres bon!" Eyes glinting in a slow, portentous fade...
...slow start Friday night, but it was worth the wait. Their closing performance of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe was magnificent. It was the best I've ever heard them play...
...performance was perfect. There were no detectable wrong notes, or questionable tonalities, or muffed passages. Yannatos's command of his orchestra's dynamics was admirable. The large entrances of the brass choir were thrilling. The trumpets handled a speedy passage with facile precision. And, of course, Daphnis et Chloe gave the HRO an opportunity to show off its unsurpassable solo flutist, Karen Monson...