Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IT SEEMS THAT in their final days, empires begin to turn faster and faster, careening along and over everything. As the fuses blow and the fires of decadence burn brighter and brighter they whip apart, spewing people and culture everywhere. Then the barbarians--or the Richard Nixons--ride into town...
Cacciato is the goofy kid who fishes the Lake Country, a bombed-out region where the shellholes are filled only with dirty water and corpses, or worse, pieces of them. His courage is not in question; the Company remembers how Cacciato got the Silver Star for shooting a Viet Cong...
THE MATHER HOUSE Drama Society's production of the play updates the action to the Paris of the 1920s. This seems to be a device to allow for several vaudevillian dance numbers, easy costuming and great jazz interlude music from a three piece combo led by Anthony Patera on piano...
Hersant has held an assembly seat from the Oise region just north of Paris since the 1950s, though a 1976 study by the newsmagazine Le Point found him to be the least effective of 228 majority members of the legislature. His Oise constituency's steady march leftward prompted Hersant...
She did not. Most of the non-Hersant papers in Paris favor her, and she has been waging a vigorous shoestring campaign with personal letters to voters. Despite Hersant's superior financial and propaganda assets, late polls show D'Harcourt running slightly ahead of Hersant. Many French journalists...