Word: parise
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Sound simple? It isn't. Sensitivity to color subtleties and a sophisticated flair for mixing them are fairly rare even among the French-couture royalty. Knowing how to conjure a rainbow on a commercial budget is an invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while...
A recent poll indicates that 61% of the French favor German unification (vs. 45% of the British), but Paris officials are not enthusiastic. Said Foreign Minister Roland Dumas: "I took note of the remark of one East German who said, 'Our friendly neighbors should understand the desire of Germans for...
Son of a highly cultured schoolteacher, Lenin was expelled from school for taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with...
Last week Western doctors working in Rumania revealed a mysterious epidemic of AIDS among the country's youngsters. The full extent of the outbreak is not yet known, but continuing tests of sick children at hospitals and orphanages have identified 706 who are infected out of 2,184 examined so...
One thinks of Rowlandson as purely English, because of his devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French. But he was unusually well traveled. In a day when tourism was an arduous and expensive business, confined mainly to the rich, he...