Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advice for NATO-and a warning to Hua's critics back home On a dingy street in a working-class arrondissement of Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mayor Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second...
Hua's arrival in Paris was marked by pageantry appropriate for the first trip to Western Europe by the top leader of the Chinese people. After Hua's American-built 707 jet rolled up at Orly Airport, he stepped onto an "extralong" red carpet for a brief walk...
In November 1936, an American artist in New York scrawled a note to a friend in Paris. "This evening," it announced with bitter formality, "I leave for the great beyond." He posted it, went to his room and swallowed an overdose of veronal. Thus, at the age of 55, died...
"Roi ne puis, prince ne daigne. Rohan suis"- "King I cannot be, to be prince I disdain. I am Rohan." This sublimely arrogant ancien régime motto suggests Bruce's transactions with the artists he knew in Paris. The main influences on him were Cézanne and...
Each of them was an imperious ruler of Egypt, albeit 32 centuries apart. Perhaps that was why President Anwar Sadat, the present ruler, leaned so solicitously over the glass-topped coffin of Pharaoh Ramses II last week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Three years ago the mummified pharaoh, who...