Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like Europe!" trilled one gleeful opening-day shopper, as venders with pushcarts barked out bargain prices for avocados and melons, farm-fresh eggs, Cheddar cheeses, 100 different kinds of pasta and bushels of other items. Actually the scene was not the old Les Halles in Paris or the Campo dei Fiori in Rome, but the Quincy Market, a huge, copper-domed structure in Boston, just a cod's throw from the famous old Haymarket. Last week the once-dilapidated Quincy Market reopened after a massive renovation to serve its original purpose: a central market for city dwellers...
...Les Murphy Nashville, Mich...
...Germany that is no longer fearful, penitent, and psychologically crushed by the outrages of WW II is cause for concern to neighbors and adversaries. Some are disturbed by the resurgence of German political and economic power and wonder if the bitter Gaullist maxim that "Les Allemands seront toujours les Allemands" will not be true again. At the same time, however, it is welcome to see, in a Western Europe staggered by political mismanagement, divided over the rise of the Left, and weakened by the international economic recession, West Germany represents a haven of political stability and economic prosperity...
...show business. "I think the convention is one of the grand opportunities for live television," CBS Anchor Man Walter Cronkite told TIME's Sally Bedell. "We should let it unfold before our eyes and see it without the intercession of an editor's scissors." Says NBC Producer Les Crystal: "The convention should be treated as a story, not a program...
...amateur drama groups. In fact, the play's original Broadway production enjoyed a substantial six-month run despite the fact that it was not very well performed. The far superior off-Broadway revival five years later ran for more than 500 performances (at this time a French film version, Les Sorcieres de Salem, was also in release, with a screenplay by Jean-Paul Sartre; and Robert Ward's fine Pulitzer-Prize-winning opera based on the play would follow...