Word: parise
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The first black African to hold the highest U.N. post was chosen only after a round of diplomatic fisticuffs between two increasingly bitter adversaries, France and the U.S. Bruised by the U.S. veto of Boutros-Ghali, its preferred choice, France endorsed three other candidates ahead of Annan. U.S. Secretary of...
4 A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House). In the second volume of his biography, John Richardson applies his skills as storyteller and art historian to a prodigious decade in Picasso's life. At the beginning a still struggling Spanish artist in Paris, he was by the end truly...
Taymor, 43, who has the long-haired, unadorned look of a college student and a precise but passionate way of describing her work that recalls your favorite professor, started acting at the age of 11, studied mime in Paris and worked in theater while majoring in mythology and folklore at...
In other additions, an oven will be installed behind the bar area where a pastry chef will work, and a metal grille door, styled after those in the Paris Metro, will be added to the entrance.
Casual readers will be most interested in the many stories of inspiring derring-do, as well as cautionary tales of derring-don't--the weight of which tends to suggest that they don't make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the...