Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VOYEURS EN VOYANT, necrophiles, mystical wizards, and a comparatively sane alchemist--these are the creatures that roam Les Whitten's fantasy Washington after dark. Every night is Halloween, and playtime tricks and treats are almost as bizarre. But Watergate has rendered The Alchemist mysteriously reasonable, and, in the post-Nixon years, this strange novel seems just the sort of writing you'd expect from Jack Anderson's top aide--scandal-ridden, eerie, and oddly credible...
They had immersed themselves in their European experience, but in their role of rescuers they could not, least of all in France, become a part of the European culture. They remained always "Les Americans." They had been Europe at a time when it was scarcely possible to accept it as a superior civilization. Instead of seeing the Paris of Henry James they saw a city where there were few literary and artistic geniuses, ordinary decent hard-up people, cafes and brothels...
After two years of a dying President who kept himself secluded from the public, the French suddenly found Giscard everywhere. He went to a movie with his daughter, took his son to dinner at a small bistro in Les Halles, slipped out of the Elysée Palace ("this prison with its faded gilt," he calls it) to drive his own car to a play. He cut the palace guard from 190 to 120 and added potted orange trees in the courtyard. Instead of the usual beribboned official portrait, he settled for a simple pose in a business suit. More...
...weapons whose cost is hard to estimate; manufacturers find that they cannot deliver for the agreed price and ask for more money. Rule contends that the Navy should have signed a "milestone" contract, under which the manufacturer is paid legitimate costs plus a set fee. Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a former Defense Department economic analyst, agrees and is demanding a full congressional investigation...
Thirty minutes later, Nixon walked slowly back to the White House for a meeting in the Cabinet Room with 46 members of Congress whom he considered his friends-among them Senators Barry Goldwater and John Stennis and Representatives George Mahon (Texas), Les Arends (Illinois) and Joe Waggonner (Louisiana). There were tears on both sides, and as he looked across the polished Cabinet table, Nixon said: "Well, this is the last meeting that I'll share in this Cabinet Room . . . I just hope you don't feel that I let you down." No one told him that...