Word: joubert
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bovery" often feels like a caustic and richly deserved counterpoint to the irritating Bridget Jones franchise. Imagine Bridget on amphetamines and you have a fair idea of Gemma Bovery. The characterizations of Gemma as a rudderless yuppie, Charlie as the befuddled schlub, various French and English twits and even Joubert, the largely sympathetic baker/narrator are all razor sharp satires that always have enough humanity to keep them from becoming two-dimensional...
...They treat us like kings and queens here,” said guest Maria Joubert...
...Joubert, who with her husband Rick has lived at Unilu periodically over the last four winters, had good news for the volunteers...
...best Christmas present of my life,” Joubert said, describing the phone call last year informing her that she and her husband had received a subsidized housing spot. “I started crying on the phone...
This year, however, difficulties from food shortages have marked the Thanksgiving season for Joubert and the 23 other people with whom she shares her home...