Word: fran
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Lilit is a straight-A student at Los Angeles' Lycée Français. She is also a regular visitor to the University of Southern California, where she takes a course in music theory and continues violin instruction with Alice Schoenfeld, her teacher since Lilit was 7½. The proud possessor of a 1704 Stradivarius lent her by a Beverly Hills collector of fine musical instruments, Lilit practices one hour at 6:30 a.m., one hour after school, one hour just before bedtime -and professes not to mind it: "Practicing just makes me want to do it more...
With Oil-Baron Hurt hiding behind the plate waiting for a curve from Fran Schumeresque, Mike Brewer blasted one over Tree Wilking in center field for a four-bagger. The run was later nullified because Brewer, who plays semi-pro ball 40 hours per week, was ruled ineligible for yesterday's contest...
...have no problem holding our own with the bats," coach John Hughes said yesterday. "Our pitching was pretty good, considering this was the first chance for Mike [Lynch] and Fran [Cronin] to show their ability," he added...
Light, whimsical, diverting on the surface, this sleek recreation by François Truffaut is deceptively sweet-like a fondant filled with vitriol. The gorgeous kid of the title is Camille Bliss (BernadetteLafont), another of the coyly annihilating heroines who have haunted Truffaut's work since the incomparable Jules and Jim (1961). These women tease men, taunt them, stalk them, until, as in The Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and as here, the men are so enmeshed in their own obsession that they become grateful, impassioned prisoners...
...orange peel, highly insured, decorate half the bon bourgeois salons of Paris. The author of many eloquent tracts, he speaks in defense of incoherence and illiteracy as poetic principles. An intellectual, Cartesian to the fingertips and a close friend of such literary eminences as Raymond Queneau, Jean Paulhan and FranÇois Ponge, he has based 30 years of work on the premise that Western culture is a grotesque irrelevancy. Dubuffet is indeed a quintessentially French figure...