Word: rard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have joined in the continual replaying of the trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert Guérard was right when, in a review of one of the thousands of books about her, he said: "The last word on Joan of Arc will never be uttered...
...Blier, 39, is best known for Going Places, a fiercely scatological comedy that was widely and unjustly reviled as misogynistic when it appeared in 1974. Handkerchiefs may provoke a similar response from literal-minded viewers. Like Going Places, it focuses on two libidinous buddies (again played by Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere) who will try anything to satisfy the seemingly frigid woman (Carol Laure) they crave. Since the doe-eyed heroine, Solange, appears to be a mindless sex object and the heroes are winning rakes, Blier all but invites condemnation as a sexist. But this film maker doesn...
...fledgling Front de Libération Nationale (F.L.N.) chose Nov. 1, 1954, as the day to launch its rebellion. In the wintry mountains of the Aurès, Muslim djounoud (soldiers of the faith) attacked a police station at Biskra, wounding two gendarmes. At Khenchela, a lieutenant, Gérard Darneau, was mortally wounded by machine-gun fire-the first French officer to die in the conflict...
...mile border with the largest and most powerful English-speaking culture in the world. Says Gérard Pelletier, Canada's Ambassador to Paris and a friend of both Trudeau and Lévesque: "Among Francophone Canadians, wherever they are, only a minute fraction contemplates passively that we might all get assimilated in this great feast of English-speaking North America...
Michel Guérard, 44, owner of a three-star restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...