Word: mistral
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...Mistral, Randy Roos--Inn Square...
...Mistral, Randy Roos--Inn Square...
...Square Men's Bar you got Papa Bear and the Second Live, who play "New Orleans boogie." Don't ask me what this is--I have never been to New Orleans, and my well-coordinated friends describe my boogie ability as "marginal, at best." Sunday through Tuesday, Mistral and Randy Roos play; Wednesday through Saturday, May 21, it's the Isaacs Brothers...
...fact, during the golden age of American railroading, roughly between 1870 and the late 1930s, passenger trains were both functional and elegant. In other countries railroads still offer an unbeatable combination of comfort, safety and reliability. France's crack expresses, like the Mistral, provide sumptuous meals, barbershops, bookstores, boutiques and business offices, all at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Japan's famed "bullet" trains, whooshing along on cushioned roadbeds, treat the passenger with geisha-like solicitude. When the English Channel tunnel is completed, le chemin de fer will whisk travelers from London to Paris...
...Real Man. In naming the world-renowned Chilean poet, Communist and ambassador to France, the academy picked another controversial figure. He is only the third Latin American to be given the coveted prize-following his high school teacher, Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that...