Word: gamier
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Produced in the Paris Opéra's sumptuous Palais Gamier, Messiaen's work, to the composer's own libretto, is on the grandest scale. It lasts five hours and 40 minutes and requires a large chorus and 120-piece orchestra, including extra brass and winds, a large percussion battery and three electronic keyboard instruments called Ondes Martenot. The orchestra is so big that it overflows the pit to envelop both sides of the stage and several boxes. The subject is the spiritual transformation of Francis the man into Francis the saint. "I have chosen Francis," says...
...Mark Thatcher, 28, the son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the 390-vehicle Paris-to-Dakar rally lived up to its promise as "the last possible adventure in our epoch." Nine days into the harrowing 6,200-mile course, Thatcher, Co-Driver Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week, on the sixth...
Still the gamier, scandalous side of presidential families most concerns and entertains Americans. Thomas Jefferson, that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their...