Word: parise
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Nigeria's debt to the Paris Club, an international finance organization, has swelled from $5 billion to over $21 billion over the last 15 years--based on then accumulation of interest alone.
As she lay dying on her Paris daybed at age 81, Colette, so rarely at a loss for words, spoke her final one. "Regarde!" she said, sweeping her arm through the air. It is hard to imagine a more apt pronouncement, for by the time of her death in 1954...
Love, she once said, was "the bread of my life and pen," but so too were gender, instinct, the natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless...
A man walks into a major department store in Paris wearing Caterpillar boots, a Jack Daniels cap, Club Med shades, a Cadillac polo shirt and Marlboro jeans. He smells ruggedly of Chevrolet aftershave. He buys a set of Le Cordon Bleu cookware for his wife and a Jeep radio-CD...
DIED. BERNARD BUFFET, 71, austere French painter whose dark landscapes and portraits (like the De Gaulle he did for Time, above) were inspired by postwar Paris; by his own hand, after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in southern France.