Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known others: German-born NBC Photographer Dieter Bellendorf; French Photographers Gilles Caron, Guy Hannoteaux, Claude Arpin; Michel Visot, a Phnom-Penh professor of law acting as a guide; and two Japanese television newsmen, Reporter Akira Kusaka and Cameraman Yujiro Tagaki...
Euphemisms are the anesthesia of language. In France, the abbreviation R.T. stands for recueillis temporaires (temporarily taken in), a numbing term for unadoptable children. Me refuses the anesthetic and presents a painful examination of one homeless boy, François (Michel Terrazon). Shifted from institution to foster home, the ten-year-old burns his bridges before he comes to them. He commits petty crimes, plays truant, lies to his many foster parents-all because he is afraid that if they love him he will lose them, as he lost his mother...
...full, and so he signed up for a drawing class instead. It was his only formal training, but it was enough: he had fallen in love with art. In 1925, he joined an artist's colony at Gloucester, Mass., where he met another aspiring young artist named Sally Michel, and married her soon after. Through the ensuing years, Sally supported the family with her illustrations for the children's page of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, freeing Milton to spend his days painting. "I used to tease him and say that his greatest patron was the Times...
...seizing the initiative with Libya, Pompidou stirred controversy not only abroad but also within his own government. He ignored the recommendation of his Foreign Minister, Maurice Schumann, who advised selling the Libyans a much smaller number of Mirages, and accepted instead the advice of Defense Minister Michel Debre, who wanted to fulfill their request for all 108 jets. Since Debre is generally regarded as the Cabinet member most loyal to the departed Charles de Gaulle and to his policies, Pompidou's decision grated on those ministers who are anxious for France to abandon the route charted by De Gaulle...
...office on the ??? floor of William James and saw him working in the somber light of a cloudy Cambridge morning. He was keeping the lights off to save electricity just as he would in his office in Paris at the top of two flights of rickety stairs. A ??? consumer" Michel Crozier...