Word: lamentingly
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...visible for the first time. "It's a younger silhouette," said Frank Adler, who designed the new uniform for Balmain. Noted one policeman: "It's more practical. But the most important change is that we can reach our gun much more quickly." Some older members of the force, however, lament the passing of a national symbol. "For most people, the image of the French policeman is the kepi," said the curator of the police museum at the Paris Prefecture. "Now all that has disappeared...
Mulroney's lament is understandable. Though the Canadian dollar took a battering last week, falling to its lowest level ever (71¢), the economy has been growing faster over the past year (4.1%) than that of any other country except Japan. Despite 10% unemployment, the majority of Canadians continue to live well. Mulroney can also take some credit for the spirit of reconciliation that has seemed to be overcoming Canada's traditional sectionalism...
...Soviet government was prepared for the onslaught of interest," says Hermann. "Everyone with two nickels to rub together wants to be the next Sol Hurok." Many of those would-be impresarios may be disappointed, however, and it is harder to make a profit from touring companies today. Says Lee Lament, president of ICM Artists, which once presented many of the Soviet troupes: "With the rising cost of travel, hotels and union help, you just can't make the profit of 25 years...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...
...benefit they play My Sweet Little Terrorist Song, a sly lament about Iran's inclusion in President George W. Bush's "axis of evil": "I just wanna watch Dylan live./ I won't fly into the Pentagon alive." Some of their songs can be read as cries for political change, but like everything else here, they are ambiguous enough to be easily defendable in a courtroom, should it come to that. As I sat in 127's practice bunker, I caught myself wondering, Where were you when I lived here? As recently as three years ago, it was still somewhat...