Word: fleurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Loitering With Intent, Spark's birstling dailogue bounces back and forth, carrying with it the seeds of power. As attention shifts, characters shuffle, hesitate and lose their authority. Fleur Talbot, the narrator of the story, is a novelist, recounting the events and characters that populate her life and her first novel as they unroll side by side in post-war London. Her voice is self-assured, speaking to us from a secure vantage point, anchored thirty years later by reputation and maturity. Fleur is single, 25 years old and extremely, efficiently ambitious. She's secretary to Sir Quentin, founder...
...Fleur watches with thorough enjoyment as this parade of increasingly, eccentrically dull characters attempt to write their memoirs: Miss Young, 30 years old, attractive, with a club leg, whose document is an "unintelligible treatise on the Cosmos and How Being is Becoming": Mrs. Wilks, brought up in the court of Russia's Czar, should have crafted riveting memoirs "but instead she wrote only "a very dull account about... discomforts of the royal palace, where (she) had to share a bedroom": and eight other misfits. In the beginning, the only one of the group reluctant to contribute to the autobiographical project...
...almost none authentic to the 1600s. Although he creates interesting contrasts in the position of players by using several sets of stairs and split levels, he overuses pastels. The set, too, resembles a kitschy misconception of the period, perhaps intended to caricature. A little royal blue and some Fleur-de-lis, as well as some real lace, would go a long way here...
Nieman Fellow Fleur de Villiers possesses the poise and verbal dexterity of Margaret Thatcher. She inhales quickly from her everpresent cigarette and speaks with deliberation...
...squad of plainclothes detectives seeking a drug suspect burst into the home of Nathaniel La Fleur, a respected black Miami schoolteacher. Although La Fleur protested loudly that the police had the wrong house, the officers beat both the teacher and his son Hollis, 20. Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno, who had once earned black respect as a liberal sympathetic to their complaints, failed to secure an indictment from a grand jury. She said the police had made "a dumb mistake...