Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a four-day Conference on International Economic Cooperation held in Paris last week by 16 industrialized nations and 19 "poor" ones (which included some nouveau riche oil-producing countries), the North made what it considered a generous offer, especially given its painfully slow economic recovery. The South grudgingly accepted the package, but termed it quite inadequate and refused to give anything in exchange. Said Claude Cheysson, the European Community's commissioner for development: "We were within a hair of a breakdown. If we had known what a risk we were taking, we might never have started this dialogue...
...three years and three books (Carrie, Salem's Lot and his latest, The Shining) has deposited $2 million in advances, says plaintively: "Somebody ought to give a correspondence course on what to do with sudden wealth." King wants to take tennis lessons, but is "afraid of looking nouveau riche...
Accolades for Kissinger flowed like the heady Beaujolais nouveau that has just arrived in Brussels. Portuguese Foreign Minister Jose Ferreira lauded the Secretary's "indelible imprint on the work of our council." NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns hailed him as "one of the most effective Foreign Ministers of our century" and "a man to whom the adjective 'great' can be applied with sincerity." Belgian Foreign Minister Renaat van Elslande presented Kissinger with a reproduction of a Latin encyclopedia from the year 1120; West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher gave him a 1642 engraving of Kissinger...
Humble Peugeot. Gaddafi's messianism has had its advantages on the home front. His personal asceticism-he lives in army barracks and rides around Tripoli in a humble white Peugeot -keeps a lid on the nouveau riche excesses that have plagued Saudi Arabia. Some observers are worried about the immigration of Libyans from the desert to the cities. Says one Western diplomat: "These people are desert nomads. There's danger that they'll become disoriented by urban life and indolent with their riches. Gaddafi is trying to combat this with a religious, revolutionary fervor-with unknown success...
Perhaps the burglary business will pick up, we think. After all, the setting does look like the Gay Nineties, the heroes are whisking between London and Paris, and we know the industrial revolution has left a lot of nouveau riche loot lying around. Yet Belmondo keeps running into pushovers--sycophantic social climbers and corrupt concubines--and it looks as though all of Paris has conspired to make his capers unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone...