Word: jours
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...press's proper occupation of examining candidates but to an increasing preoccupation with finding minute character flaws. The event that was giving pause to Gannon and others was the recent addition of marijuana use -- no matter when it occurred -- as a scandale du jour. The tendency to press excess was visible in a little-noted but unforgettable moment on Nov. 7, as all six candidates gathered in Des Moines for the Iowa Democrats' Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, ready to discuss the issues. That same day Douglas Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court went up in marijuana smoke...
...Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
...these criticisms are undoubtedly legitimate, but we Cantabrigians should not be too smug about the lack of intellectual rigor at the "hot" university du jour. That is because, for all the hoopla that accompanies the entrance of the Harvard Class of '86 into the company of educated men and women, many of us will graduate today knowing that our Harvard education is in large part a big inside joke...
Unlike Ruth-chaser Roger Maris and others under journalistic seige, Rose kept both his hair and humor. The two-a-day press conferences, better attended than some State of the Union messages, raised issues as profound as the soup du jour at Flanigan's on Second Street, hereafter to be known as Pete Rose Way. "I knew chicken noodle was on Tuesday," he said significantly. But that night an 0-for-4 showing got him away from the specials (asparagus) and back to the basics (vegetable). Ron Robinson, a raw Reds pitcher who last spring had fretted that he wouldn...
Anyone wishing to forego the entrees du jour in the 1700s had to ask the president's permission to do so. "Bok would be a pretty busy fellow, wouldn't he," says Walcott...