Word: mme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begun," began the countdown by Joseph Alsop in his syndicated newspaper column. The acerbic Washington watcher has been alluding to his upcoming retirement so often in recent columns, however, that some readers began to wonder whether he might be setting the stage for a series of farewell performances, like Mme...
...Valery Giscard d'Estaing entrusted the bill to Health Minister Simone Veil, 47, mother of three. She argued the case with intelligence and controlled passion. Only once did she lose her composure-when a centrist Deputy shouted, "Madame Minister, do you want to send children to the ovens?" Mme. Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz who saw her parents and brother perish in the ovens of World War II, scribbled a note of protest to the Deputy: "I cannot accept such statements in view of my past, with which, perhaps, you are not acquainted...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
...Peking") who are expected collectively to assume Chou's manifold responsibilities if the Premier should pass from the scene. The others: Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled former Finance Minister, whose current role is overseeing economic development plans; Chang Chun-chiao, thought to be a member of Mme. Mao's leftist clique, who could take over many of Chou's day-to-day office duties; Chen Hsi-lien, a bull-like army commander and the most likely candidate for Defense Minister in any post-Chou lineup...
...lights went down after inj termission, the mercurial opening bars of Impresario's overture transformed the evening. By the standard of the composer's later works, Impresario is a trifle. Its characters are types-Mr. Angel, the elderly financier, Mme. Goldentrill, the aging diva. Yet how boldly the types are cast, and how fresh the music. It was a good show, even though Director Frank Corsaro placed the action in the Edwardian era in a wasted effort to provide contrast with the Salieri. Sopranos Karan Armstrong (Goldentrill) and Ruth Welting (Miss Silverpeal) filled the theater with fine singing...