Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cluttered gallery on Rue Laffitte in Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...
...Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center since 1973, says that a year or more after their treatment, 23 out of 24 patients showed no recurrence of breast cancer. In France, where he has treated some 500 women with iridium implants since 1961, Dr. Bernard Pierquin of Henri Mondor Hospital in the Paris suburb of Créteil reports a survival rate of about 75% to 80% after ten years-comparable to the results of radical mastectomies...
...election was brief as only seven HUISA members ran for the seven available posts. Rafi Ahmed, Ramani A. Aiyer, Henri Gillet, Mary T. Lynch, Felix Twaalhoven '79, Salim Walji and John D. Weston '80 will take over next year from the present governing board, which was appointed last November by Faculty advisers Archie C. Epps, dean of students, and Jennifer Stephens, director of the International Office...
...invasion of Franglais, which brought le smoking (dinner jacket) and le footing (a walk) into the language of Racine and Corneille. Now French speakers in Belgium want to rid their vocabulary of a similar disease - Belglais. Leading the campaign is Parliamentarian Antoinette Spaak (daughter of the late statesman Paul-Henri Spaak). She wants a law that would penalize Belglais-speaking government officials 65? to $2.50 per offense, depending on how flagrant it is ruled...
...women. Euphemie Lacoste, victim of an arranged marriage, was accused of poisoning her husband in 1844. While the bourgeoisie in the reign of Louis Philippe prattled of love matches, Euphemie's father signed a marriage contract for his convent-bred 22-year-old daughter. The husband was Henri Lacoste, the girl's 68-year-old great-uncle, who was riddled with syphilis...