Word: frans
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...FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND, 57, also a former Resistance leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished...
...been 21 years since Bonjour Tristesse established Schoolgirl Françoise Sagan as the enfant terrible of French letters. She is finishing up her ninth novel, which she describes as "not a love story. It's about an obsession, and based partly in the U.S." Sagan is an ailing 38. Her life has been scarred with drama: two divorces, a near-fatal auto accident, a bout with habitual gambling. Dividing her time between a Paris apartment and a Normandy house, Sagan is still planning, as she announced last year, to live in Ireland, at least for half the year...
...that great offensive line. It's a smooth machine." On defense, Martin thinks "Miami is the toughest in the league." Indeed, they have allowed opponents only 11 points per game this season. Figures Martin: "I just don't think Minnesota, even with Fran Tarkenton mixing up plays and scrambling, can consistently move the ball against Miami...
There is one trap of reputation for those rare artists who come to epitomize their age: when the society goes down, so do they. An extreme case in point was François Boucher. The son of a French needlework designer, he became the most successful French painter of the 18th century, the favorite of Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour. Born in 1703, Boucher lived through the climax of the ancien régime and died less than two decades before it did. "In him," wrote Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, in their great defense of rococo...
...Peace and War (Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges), or to The Lone Ranger (Rossini's William Tell Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes), or to The Green Hornet (Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee). The Hornet and the Ranger were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto, and a 200-carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet had a faithful Japanese valet, Kato (during World War II Kato abruptly became a Filipino), and a supercar with...