Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several years ago, French Screenwriter and Author Marguerite Duras recovered some notebooks stashed away in a cupboard. They dated from the last days of World War II, and in them she had recorded her anguished waiting for news of her husband, a concentration camp deportee. The diary she later published as The War records his return; he was so emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding...
...preference poll taken in February among Democrats had Lee Iacocca, autobiographer and star of a popular TV commercial, coming in third -- and he's a registered Republican! No matter. He is, as the pundits used to say, "presidential timber." Only now one says he has "star quality," what the French might call that mysterious "je ne sais quoi." Or, as Woody Allen once put it, that "je ne peux pas." Peter Ueberroth certainly has it. It is only a matter of time before he declares for something or other. Does he belong to a party? Who knows? Who cares...
...gain the family fortune only if Fairfax dies a bachelor. The Lieutenant of the Tower (David Magill), another Fairfax fan, agrees to find him a woman who will marry him before his execution in exchange for a hundred crown dower. The woman in question is is Elsie Maynard (Michelle French), a traveling minstrelette who does the country fair circuit with jestering partner Jack Point (Peter F. Miller). Point hopes someday to marry Elsie, but agrees to the scheme after hearing the clink of the hundred crowns...
...assistant tormentor") Wilfrid Shadbolt valiantly stumbles and smirks his way through his path of comic relief, but the darkly cherubic actor simply looks too young to be taken seriously. A suitor of Phoebe and a conspirator with Point, his adolescent countenance distracts the audience from an otherwise entertaining effort. French as Elsie suffers from a corresponding problem; more than any of the other non-students in the show, French is just too old for her part of "a maid of 17." Possessing the production's finest voice, she is nonetheless unconvincing as an ingenue gone astray...
...which committed scholars devote their professional lives. It would be anomalous not to pay the same, serious attention to understanding a process so central to the purposes of the University. Rather than hesitate, therefore, we should take inspiration from the story President Kennedy used to tell about the French General Louis Lyautey who once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow-growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. "In that case," Lyautey responded, "there is no time to lose. We must plant it this afternoon...