Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they now find it awkward to have changed their position. French rightists also find themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists and left-wing Socialists. After all, said...
...winning the contracts for Occidental, Hammer has succeeded in becoming accepted by Premier Zhao Ziyang as "China's old friend." Last year Hammer completed 2½ years of negotiations for a study that may lead to joint development of the world's largest open-pit coal mine in Shanxi province, west of Peking...
Police's lead singer and premier song writer, who is called Sting, explains: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically." That's a tall order for a five-minute four-second tune, but Sting is a fleet writer and his song can carry the weight. Drummer Stewart Copeland has a slightly different, more bemused explanation. He maintains that "Sting is in his Germanic-scientists-of-unpronounceable-names phase. I know...
...paintings. Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their way into the hands of John Connally, 66. Now in partnership with Forrest Fenn, owner...
...executions took place, in Yao's version, after a dinner of sea cucumbers and tiger's tendons at a secret military hideout reserved for China's top leaders outside Peking. Mao knew about Lin's plot almost from the beginning, and, with the help of Premier Chou Enlai, deliberately chose to kill Lin at the very spot Lin had selected for his own coup...