Word: ir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both an observer of and a participant in the life of his family, his environment and traditions. And so, like any father, Monsieur can play favorites with his children, finding small pleasure in the weekly visits of his dutiful son, gasping for the breath of fresh life the mercurial Irène brings with her in her in frequent appearances. Like any grandparent, he can pamper or scold the little ones. Like any widower, he can surge into reveries of his dead wife, see her sitting in that chair, her chair...
...wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat and one lingering waltz before nightfall; then, as abruptly as she came, Irène drives off to patch up a lovers' quarrel. Dinner, farewells, and a last...
...Monsieur's failure, in his own eyes, as an artist. He was too faithful a family man, too attentive a student, too much a gentleman to renounce the academic style and strike out boldly for the terrain charted by the impressionists. "Perhaps I lacked courage," he confides to Irène. "I thought if I'd admitted what was original in others I'd have lost my own little melody." He is like a Salieri who has taught himself, through a lifetime of small disappointments, to accept that he will never be a Mozart...
...Rastic, they way to coach ir to take your oppoents's two most important qualities-movment and aggressiveness-and take one of them, away...
Several council members proposed granting the rugby club $3000 to help them to attend the tournament. In an effort to prevent ir responsible outlays, the council earlier last night had passed an an overnight amendment specifying that any revolution with a budget of more than $500 must be reviewed by the body's finance Committee before coming to a vote on the full floor. Because the council will not be meeting again this spring it could not pass the vote on the rugby team's request without suspending the new rule...