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...cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand's extraordinary vigor. "Her eyes were rather poppy. She lived to the hilt...
...much more quickly if they could earn more through increased exports of goods and raw materials to the U.S., West Germany and Japan; thus those countries should be willing to stir up their domestic economies through more aggressive fiscal and monetary measures. Not until the weaker countries begin to prosper again through trade, the argument continues, will the Big Three be able to count on them as a rich market for their own goods...
Tales of George Sand's amours with Liszt, Heine, Balzac and Flaubert are also dismissed as apocryphal. With the record thus cleared, Biographer Cate dramatically details the involvements that his scholarship can verify-including affairs with Prosper Mérimeée, Alfred de Musset, Frédéric Chopin, one Italian surgeon, two French lawyers and an international assortment of young men who entered Sand's household as tutors for her two children, Maurice and Solange...
...Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired a model of the Enterprise. Paramount is now planning to make a Star Trek movie. Glubegk enkov (Live long and prosper), as Vulcanites would say. Spock...
...designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer. Far from admiring merchants, he looked upon them as a greedy lot who were forever trying to bypass the market by conspiring to fix prices and hold down wages. But he thought, somewhat naively, that such monopolistic schemes could prosper only with the active aid of government?which, in his day, they often got. So he advocated complete laissez-faire. Government, he said, should stop trying to regulate trade, cease all intervention in the market and let free competition work its wonders...