Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But building a world-class military is still going to be a challenge. Largely, it's a matter of money. Though the P.L.A.'s budget shot up 13% last year, that cash went to help the army get leaner, not meaner. From a mid-1970s high of 4 million soldiers...
There are thousands of paintings by French Impressionists in American collections, public and private; America's infatuation with Impressionism, which began more than a century ago, has never stopped. Yet only one member of the Impressionist group ever visited America, and it wasn't for artistic reasons. Edgar Degas (1834...
Hovering behind its presentation is the vaguely boosterish feeling that Degas felt some unusual affinity to New Orleans and to Louisiana in general. "Louisiana must be respected by all her children," he wrote to his friend Henri Rouart in Paris, "and I am almost one of them." Alas, it's...
There is also a guy you can hire to sit at your table at a restaurant to prevent you from ordering high-fat foods, like some sort of Zone Diet Escort Service. So last Thursday I called this guy, surrogate willpower professional David Kirsch, a gym owner who gets $150...
Sloppy research Opening blurb refers to "Dark Ages"--a gauche term--plus the movie actually takes place in the early Renaissance; priest mixes up Latin grammar; Joan's brother did not die during the attack on Paris