Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LES AUCOIN. Taking a Northwest Oregon district that had not gone Democratic in 81 years, AuCoin (pronounced Oh-coin) is a smooth-talking politician who wears conservative dark suits but is a thorough liberal. As majority leader in the Oregon legislature, AuCoin, 32, championed environmental issues, consumer protection and civil rights. His opponent, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, former director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, was similarly strong in supporting protective environmental measures. But AuCoin, a former newspaperman and university publicist, proved more impressive on television and ran a better-organized, labor-supported campaign...
...drawing board. Then Giscard vetoed new high-rise apartments that were planned to replace the picturesque artists' colony of Cité Fleurie. Next he blocked construction of an office tower, which Pompidou once described as a "monument to my presidency," on the now cleared grounds of the old Les Halles market. Instead, Giscard ruled that the whole area be turned into a 13-acre garden-the first major park in Paris since Bois de Boulogne was created over a century...
...other films in The Boston Center for the Arts series of which Bland's film is a part include Dizzie Gillespie, a 1959 Les Blank production, and John Jeremy's Jazz Is Our Religion. Jeremy's 1970 film supports Bland's thesis that even when a black musician plays from his roots he blows his soul "through a white man's machine." But the work is most notable for some fine stills of the conditions and communities that breed jazz as well as a scattering of poetic jazz talk by Langston Hughes...
That, as it happens, is just what the Saudis did. After paying off their debts, they moved to their winter quarters at Geneva across the border from a gambling casino at Divonne-les-Bains in France. Monegasques were confident, however, that they would be back. One real estate agent reported that the Saudis had made inquiries about acquiring a pied a terre-"a large villa or a small skyscraper"-in the tiny principality...
...near-miss after a string of Diaghilev revival hits. Last spring, for example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated by typewriter sounds, gunshots and tidbits of ragtime...