Word: luge
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...Jean Saubert, fully recovered from a touch of the flu, flashed the form that already has won four races this winter. But each day brought new reports of bruises, cuts, twisted muscles and broken bones. And there was worse: trying to negotiate a tricky turn on the ice-coated luge (sled) run, Britain's Kazimierz Skrzypecki, 50, lost control of his flimsy craft and crashed. Rushed to a hospital with a ruptured aorta and fractures of the skull, arm and pelvis, Skrzypecki died 27 hours later-the first fatality in the history of the Winter Olympics. Then, to everyone...
...King at the high noon of his power, has just been brought out in paperback. In it Lewis skillfully uses the checkered life of the Due du Maine, Louis' most maligned illegitimate son, to chronicle the crumbling of French grandeur and the approach of le déluge...
...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
...Deux-Eglises, Canard hailed him as Christopher Colombey, and celebrated his crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...