Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Van Voorst was TIME's bureau chief in Tehran earlier this year, and so he was returning to familiar territory when he rushed to Tehran from Beirut immediately on hearing of the capture of the hostages. Among the problems he faced on his return: unruly mobs, intermittent breaks in...
DIED. Yvonne de Gaulle, 79, widow of French President Charles de Gaulle and known throughout France as "Aunt Yvonne"; in Paris. The daughter of a wealthy Calais biscuit manufacturer, she was a loyal and uncomplaining supporter of her husband's tumultuous military and political career. She joined him in...
At 16, Pritchett was sent off to learn the leather business. By 1921 he was an expatriate, earning a slender living selling photography supplies, ostrich feathers and shellac in Paris. It was the Paris of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, but Pritchett knew little of it. He recalls...
Most of his time was spent with painters, trying to transliterate the impact of postimpressionism into his fledgling prose. It worked well enough that the Christian Science Monitor asked him to write an occasional mood piece about Paris. This led to assignments in Ireland and Spain, the subject of his...
DIED. Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor recently implicated by the press in a 1974 real estate scandal; after swallowing an overdose of barbiturates and drowning in a pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of...