Word: michell
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...also the swan song of its curator, Michel Laclotte, soon to retire as president and director of the Louvre. Like some benign capo, he has called in all his markers at once in a virtuoso display of accumulated borrowing power. His contributing art historians, from Alessandro Ballarin to Konrad Oberhuber, provide clear and scholarly catalog essays; no serious French catalog would dream of using the jargon so popular now in American academe...
...SPITE OF OUR MISTAKES, AND THERE WERE some, I truly don't think we deserved this," said former Prime Minister Michel Rocard as the returns poured in during the first round of France's parliamentary elections. Voters thought otherwise. Rocked by scandals and blamed for France's 10.5% unemployment rate, the ruling Socialists plunged from 34.7% of the vote in 1988 to 17.6%. The conservative alliance between former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) and ex-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy took 39.5%, which France's voting system was expected...
...then came Karmanos again, bringing in French partner defenseman Michel Breistroff and his team-low three points. The Mather junior keyed a scramble in front of the net that led to Karmanos's second tally of the night at 18:02 and Harvard's 3-1 lead heading into the third period...
RARELY HAS A CAMPAIGN SPEECH SET OFF SUCH A powerful detonation. Addressing a Socialist rally in Montlouis-sur-Loire in mid-February, ex-Prime Minister Michel Rocard called for a "political big bang" that would replace France's outmoded right-left political structures with a broad coalition of "progressive" forces, ranging from reform-minded communists and Socialists to ecologists, centrists and human-rights activists. Rocard was pronouncing the death of President Francois Mitterrand's scandal-tarnished Socialist Party, which faces almost sure defeat in this month's parliamentary elections, and laying the groundwork for his own 1995 presidential bid. Mitterrand...
...late penalty to defender Michel Breistroff greased the skids of the Big Green attack--at the start of the second period, Dartmouth collected two goals in 37 seconds to snatch the lead back...