Word: henri
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...Most listeners, though, didn't know that the countrified "The Three Bells" ("Les trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were...
...which in any case had banned exports when the outbreak began - but from France as well. At least a half dozen other European countries imposed checks and restrictions on French exports because of confirmed cases of foot-and-mouth in the western region of Mayenne. The bans, said Marc-Henri Cassagne, head of the organization that monitors animal health in France, "are abusive in their application to areas of France that have shown no sign of contagion." But even Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany warned that the slaughter-and-burn policy around Mayenne may not halt the outbreak. "There will...
...week's end more than 25,000 pigs, sheep and cattle had been burned in Britain. The French, in particular, took no chances. "Livestock ranchers who went through earlier epidemics are now saying they'll never make it through another one if it spreads to France," says Marc-Henri Cassagne, director general of the National Federation of Sanitary Protection Groups. "Foot-and-mouth is an old enemy we know only too well...
...muscles couldn't support the mass of his skeletal structure - or was it that his bones couldn't support his musculature? I can't remember which, but it's a major health issue in big monster circles.) The matte paintings, which I believe to be the uncredited work of Henri Hillinck, fill the frames of "Kong" and are the primary source of the fabulous vistas...
...infinitely civilized, decent, and human Michel de Montaigne, sometime mayor of Bordeaux and inventor of the modern essay. Montaigne, a Catholic whose mother was a Jew, lived squarely in the middle of the religious wars, yet managed to survive them handsomely and even to be a friend to Henri of Navarre and Henri of Guise, not out of duplicity but out of sheer decency...