Word: jacquese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The third movement is a weird fusion of tragedy and parody. "Frere Jacques" turns up in a chilling minor key, but then the mood is undone by silly outbursts from a clarinet and general schmaltziness. When another "Wayfarer" melody appears, there is a long, painfully beautiful phrase for the oboe...
You mentioned that the "cocktail" of protease inhibitors and other antiviral drugs can cost up to $20,000 a year.Why don't pharmaceutical companies produce these drugs in massive quantities, as the demand is surely there? The cost would be brought down to much more reasonable figures. The whole of...
MOSCOW: Through a long succession of sick days, Boris Yeltsin has definitely retained his sense of timing. Kremlin officials happily announced today that not only was the Russian president back in the Kremlin, but that Yeltsin would indeed keep this weekend's meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Moscow...
French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping...
What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely...