Word: frenched
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...taught the rest of us as well. If Julia Child gave American women the information and confidence to master the French classics, Lukins freed them from the strictures of a single cuisine. In her best-selling Silver Palate cookbooks, co-authored with Julee Rosso, she borrowed flavors and techniques from around the world to create a sophisticated style that 1980s America, with its new prosperity and attention to food, was ready to claim as its own. The dinner party was never the same...
...about $14 billion to finance its business for the next several years--and $2.8 billion more to buy Siemens' joint-venture stake. One plan calls for the state to sell 15% of Areva to new investors. Areva also plans to sell off its shares of a number of smaller French companies as well as T&D, an energy-transmission affiliate that it bought for close to $1 billion in 2004, which is now valued at nearly $5 billion and accounts for 20% of the company's profits...
Such messages are admissible in most U.S. states as long as they are authentic. In France, proof of infidelity won't affect child custody or asset division, but it can reduce the separation period (two years in contested cases) required before obtaining a divorce. The ruling prompted French telecoms to warn that it's possible to recover deleted texts within 10 days of sending them...
...fighting off French communists during his time in postwar France as an Army MP - just one of the sticky situations he would get into as a young man: "I could see that their sticks were sharpened at the ends. Pig sticks, used for jabbing at pigs to encourage them toward the pen. Then I remembered that I was armed as well: wrapped around each leg of my MP pants ... was a bicycle chain ... I reached down and unhooked the chains. I started whirling them over my head...
...industry veterans and a sister-in-law duo are leading the charge for gem-encrusted cuff bracelets?fall's polished rejoinder to last year's boho bangles. French designer Dominique Aurientis, who first gained attention in the '80s for her bold bracelets, has relaunched a collection of signature designs in materials like wood and gold plate. After years of styling celebrities in Harry Winston gems, Carol Brodie just introduced her own line of ridiculously well-priced jewels, Rarities, sold on HSN. And Radhika and Gauri Tandon channel their Indian and Art Nouveau inspirations into vibrant resin cuffs with inlaid stones...