Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tolerance of demonstrations two years ago precipitated his downfall. The marchers, divided into well-organized ranks according to their school, chanted and waved red and white banners. When they tired of singing the Internationale and the national anthem, the students launched into homemade ditties. To the tune of the French song Frere Jacques, they warbled in Chinese, "Lying to the people, lying to the people, very strange, very strange...
CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions...
...most school restaurants the menus are elaborate, and many are classically French. The selections at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco reflect the curriculum. "Some things are sauteed, some poached, some braised," says Jean-Michel Jeudy, vice president for food and beverage. "We do not teach different recipes but different techniques." The accent is equally Gallic at L'Ecole, the aptly named restaurant of the French Culinary Institute in New York City's SoHo district. A recent $18 prix fixe lunch began with a light Roquefort souffle, which was followed by a moist salmon fillet in chervil sauce...
McAnaney and Julia French each picked up a pair of goals, and Joslin, Co-Captain Lisi Bailliere, Jenny Walser, and Karen Everling all found a way past the goalie once...
...will the authorities go in clamping down on the demonstrators? -- As Soviet tanks prepare to move out of Eastern Europe, NATO decides not to decide on revamping its arsenal. -- Should the U.S. bail out Poland's Communists? -- France's bicentennial hoopla extols the glories of the French Revolution -- but battle lines drawn in 1789 still have not disappeared...