Word: fontainebleau
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When the leaders of the ten nations that constitute the European Community gathered last week at the Palais de Fontainebleau outside Paris, they knew that the outcome of their two-day summit might either launch the political and economic revival of Western Europe or set the seal on its decline. For five years, the question of how to deal with Britain's demand for a cut in its disproportionate contribution to the Community's common budget had all but paralyzed its ability to act on other pressing matters. Among them: the Community's chronic funding difficulties...
Thus the election amounted to a series of national opinion polls that invited voters to criticize those in power without taking the risk of sending them packing. The outcome came as a blow to most of the ten leaders who will meet this week in the French city of Fontainebleau to deal with issues that have condemned the Community to semiparalysis. Said a senior official in Brussels: "Insofar as everyone emerges weaker, it is not good. There are only negative signs...
...most expensive commodity in Europe, Holbein was a completely international man: he worked in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and, especially, England. His work, despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron, the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Holbein selected the pose of another...
Archer won the Pudding's Midnight Madness lottery, which treated her and friend Robert S. Keane '85 to a limousine ride to Logan Airport, two round-trip plane tickets to Miami, accommodations for three days and nights in the Fontainebleau Hotel, and a food allowance...
Defense Attorney Williams derided the evidence as "two minus two," and Hastings had a ready explanation for everything he had done. Yes, he was at the Fontainebleau, but at the "social" invitation of Borders, who stood him up. Yes, he promised Borders over the phone that he would act the next day, but the supposed code was a straightforward discussion of letters he planned to write urging reinstatement of a suspended lawyer who was a mutual friend. And yes, he issued the $845,000 order, but only to comply with two recent appeals court rulings requiring that action. Hastings also...