Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious challenge to the hunt came from an environmental organization called Greenpeace, led by David McTaggart, 47. A veteran of the annual seal-hunting protests in his native Canada, McTaggart six years ago sailed a wooden ketch into the South Pacific in a futile attempt to halt a French atomic bomb test. This time he vowed to keep a cordon of conservationists between the Norwegians and their prey. Said McTaggart: "There is no way they can stop us, short of sending in the police...
...must in any season is Lomotil or another anti-diarrhetic, and throat lozenges, to combat the dust and coal smoke in the air. The F.F. must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine, potable soft drinks (a prevalent banana concoction tastes like carbonated Brylcreem); cigars, low-tar cigarettes and Di-Gel; Kleenex, Band-Aids, shower curtains, shoeshines; and, with no sense of loss, lawns, pubs, sidewalk cafes, casinos, credit cards, commercials, news, Muzak, golf...
Violette Noziere was a pretty and a dissolute French working-class girl who, in 1933 at the age of 18, poisoned her mother and father. The father died, but the mother survived, and at her trial for murder Violette claimed that this outcome was deliberate. She murdered him to escape his incestuous attacks, she said, and merely gave her mother enough poison to disable her so that she could not rescue her husband...
...crime and trial created an enormous stir, which Director Claude Chabrol has depicted - there are angry crowds and balladeers singing laments in the street outside the courthouse - but his main interest is in the spoiled innocence of Violette. She is played with astonishing virtuosity by an extraordinary young French actress named Isabella Huppert. Violette's twisted mind seems to have been truly monstrous. The incest story was pure invention. She got her parents to swallow poison by telling them it was medicine. Yet something in her character was capable of generating sympathy. What we see in Actress Huppert...
...week, for example, President Carter said at his news conference that congressional passage at long last of his battered energy legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar. Next day the dollar hit yet another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence in the dollar has so eroded...