Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Dominique's, a French restaurant in Washington, advertised fresh Pennsylvania rattlesnake sauteed in wine for $9.25, Interior Department Herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. whipped off a letter to the beanery urging that the reptile be spared. Pennsylvania's scarce timber rattlesnake is rapidly approaching extinction, he warned. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus got wind of the letter and promptly fired Dodd, mainly for sending a personal protest on official Government stationery...
...cover the booze the individual students would have bought for themselves before the ban is unfair to the teetotalling minority. Besides, alcohol is expensive; the masters could use their budget to reach many students more often if they were not burdened with a bar bill the size of the French war debt...
Church intellectuals with a longer-term view are watching John Paul's approach to doctrine. They are upset over three developments begun under Pope Paul VI that have been continued by John Paul. One is this year's formal Vatican condemnation of writings by French Theologian Jacques Pohier on grounds that among other "evident errors," he denied the bodily resurrection of Christ. The Vatican is also quietly investigating iconoclastic Dutch Theologian Edward Schilebeeckx. The new "apostolic constitution" intended to reaffirm controls over faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments...
...small, but it is nimble. Last week American Motors Corp., which produces only 1.83% of the nation's cars, swung a deal with Renault, the French-owned automaker, that should help it cope with the expected demand for small, gas-stingy cars. AMC will get $150 million from Renault, $50 million in credits, and the rights to build the French company's newly designed front-wheel-drive car starting in 1982. The U.S. firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that...
There are a few less happy sequences, especially one involving Pepe le Pew, the amorous French-accented skunk, and it may be a mistake to use Bugs as a host-narrator. His specialty was one-liners, and a mouthful of words ill suits his style. But why quibble? Jones was a latecomer to the unpretentious, slam-bang Warner Bros, animation department, and if he did not invent most of the studio's great cartoon stars, he brought the house manner to its finest flowering, less elaborate than Disney's, but often far funnier. This modest retrospective provides...