Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France relishes an affaire, be it of politics, passion or business. Last week both the Left Bank and the right banks puzzled over L'Affaire Schneider, which involves a battle for the control of an old and powerful iron and steel empire. Leading roles in the drama have been played by a former film beauty, a duchess and a Belgian nobleman...
...Passion Fruit to Betel Nuts...
...selection is huge: tripes a la mode de caen and cassoulet toulousain from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...
...December movie that won Marina Vlady the best actress award at this year's Cannes Festival (TIME, June 14). She plays Regina, a demure and religious girl who catches the eye of Alfonso (Ugo Tognazzi), an auto dealer twice her age. He pursues her with such passion that she is forced to protest: "I'll give myself only to the man I marry...
Durant specifically denies himself absolute judgments. His gently rationalistic view of history holds that "there is some truth in every passion, something to be loved in every foe." But with typical diffidence, Durant pronounces the age of Louis a hopeful one. "The mood of Europe was changing from supernaturalism to secularism, from theology to science, from hopes of heaven and fears of hell to plans for the enlargement of knowledge...