Word: julienning
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...MOST STRIKING relationship and the one which forms the core of the novel is the one between Julien, a card player and roguish art dealer who hopes to sell a forged painting on the cruise, and Clarisse, a sullen and withdrawn heiress who is married to Eric, a radical publisher who takes her for granted and treats her like a child...
...novel, a women so filled with self-doubt that when she coats herself in make-up she appears "grotesquely thick and gleaming," hiding herself behind a veneer of cosmetics. Yet Clarisse emerges as the heroine of the novel as something, perhaps a mutual pity, draws her and Julien together. It begins at the dinner table when "as he leaned to give her a light, and her shimmering fawncolored hair momentarily entered his field of vision, bringing with it a whiff of perfume, Julien discovered with surprise that he desire...
...self-respect returns, Clarisse's need to hide herself vanishes, and in a striking scene Julien sees her true beauty; "Just then the beacon from the lighthouse crossed her face and Julien was left petrified. Her make-up had given way under the tears and Kleenex and like the ramparts of a city it had crumbled and seeped away...
Meanwhile, Clarisse's husband is enduring an emotionless affair with a vapid starlet, while the sensual diva leads on a young gigolo who ultimately kills himself over his love for her. The subplots enthrall, but all fade away as Clarisse's and Julien's love reaches its promising resolution...
...plus two or three backup designs in case of a breach in security; the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, one of London's ancient guilds (founded in 1345, thank you), which was given the task of assigning one of its members to concoct the wedding bouquet. Think about Major Julien T. Kenwood, 36, of the Mounted Military Police, who, along with four other mounted officers, will lead Lady Diana in her Glass Coach from Clarence House to St. Paul's, and who admits that the whole thing "is a fairly daunting prospect. It would be wrong...