Word: les
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...great Left Bank establishments, such as Les Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of decline have prompted a cry of alarm, with newspaper articles and even a television special deploring the slow extinction of le zinc. A government poll showed that 62% of the French feel cafes are an "indispensable" part of life. A festival at the Paris Videotheque inventoried 110 films centered on cafes...
...stories appeared before Nov. 3, Packwood might well have lost his costly ($7.8 million) re-election battle against Democrat Les AuCoin. A previous challenger for Packwood's seat, former state supreme court justice Betty Roberts, derided the implication that alcohol had caused the Senator's misbehavior as "an insult to the victims and the voters of Oregon. I think the only proper step for him to take now is to resign." Oregon Democrats were organizing a recall effort, even though legal experts say the state's law on $ recall does not apply to members of Congress...
...surely no great coincidence that Packwood's contrite acknowledgement of misdeeds has come after his reelection. Packwood beat out Democratic challenger Les AuCoin by only 4 percent in a race that many predicted could go either way. In an interview with the Post before the election and in previous interviews with local newspapers Packwood denied the accusations outright...
...country, the choices confronting French director Marcel Carne were stark: he could stay and make movies as though nothing were happening and be accused of collaborating, or he could flee to someplace where he could not speak the language well enough to create. Carne stayed. The chief result, Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), is a splendid sentimental tribute to 19th century populist theater, and to the acrobats, clowns, pantomimists and courtesans who created a street life to counter the staid classicism of the Comedie Francaise...
...hands contend, are different from the 9-to-5 world of civilians. But for all the uproar, there were signs that Clinton was winning support. Polls show a majority of the public favors lifting the ban. In contrast to Senator Sam Nunn's harsh criticism, House Armed Services Chairman Les Aspin was quietly supporting the initiative. Even General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was having second thoughts. Although not backing away from his support for the current policy, Powell announced that the armed forces stand "ready to do what we're told...