Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edwardians, photography was still a minor art. Journalistic celebrity, except for actors and the high-society whores delicately known as "les grandes horizontals," was something to shun at all costs. It was the portrait that condensed fame and status, and to do so it needed to be painted by one of the lions of the medium, those astonishingly facile and brisk painters who plied their trade in the upper reaches of a society through which they moved on almost equal terms with their clients-Paul-César Helleu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Anders Zorn. In England and America...
Lamppa preciously a middle distance pecialist, moves up to the half-mile this season, although a lack of depth in the 440 may force him to run the shorter event today. If he does run it freshman Les Palette who has lacked good in the quarter--will run the 600 along with Brian McAndrews and David Frim. Peter Rittenbury, a freshman middle-distance standout is also sidelined with injuries, and may run in the 600 when he returns...
SOLIDARITE AVEC LES PRISONNIERS D'OPINION...
...courageously accompanied him to Algiers. Preferring to live in the shadow of her husband, she avoided publicity and spent much of the past decade gardening and doing charitable work in the quiet seclusion of La Boisserie, the family's country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, north of Dijon...
...management's centerpiece demand: that journalists and classified ad takers be allowed to operate the keyboards of computer typesetting equipment. That issue is to be discussed further over the next year, with no guarantee that the NGA will let anybody else use the new machines. Said NGA President Les Dixon: "Our boys will do it. They've been training...