Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rationality was not on the agenda; the straights' reaction was horrifying. Such witty slogans as "Necrophiliac Thursday" and "Child Molesters' Friday" were scrawled on the signs. I cannot quite express the depth of resentment I felt and feel at being lumped together with people who screw dead bodies or seven-year olds. My love is mature and adult, and requires mature adult reciprocation...
Perry said, "I know lots of students who are having a wonderful time," but added many students express anxiety over the tightening economy and less abundant job opportunities...
...election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation of Cartesians won him a wide following. Says Salinger: "It was the start of a whole new life...
...Gregory, 11. Though he learned the language of diplomacy from his French-born mother and grandmother as a boy in San Francisco ("If you didn't speak French in our house, you didn't eat"), he does his columns in English, then approves a L'Express translation...
...hope to get things moving," announced Françoise Giroud when she was appointed France's State Secretary for la Condition Féminine in 1974. Alas, Giroud, who is a co-founder of the French magazines Elle and L'Express, eventually decided that journalists have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell...