Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Giscardians and Gaullists failed to produce a compromise on a candidate. Calling Ornano's candidacy already a failure, Chirac said he was offering his own "so that the capital of France does not run the risk of falling into Socialist-Communist hands." The logic convinced no one. Premier Raymond Barre, visibly angered, charged that Chirac's move would sow such political confusion in the ranks of the majority that his economic-recovery program would be "compromised." Added Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet: "Far from strengthening the majority, Mr. Chirac's initiative risks giving the left a chance." Though...
...Sleep. No list of this kind would be complete without a Bogart film, and I guess this is my favorite, partly on atmospheric grounds, partly because of Lauren Bacall, and partly because of its relation to the Raymond Chandler novel...
...arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems), written by the late Raymond Queneau, a novelist (Zazie dans le Metro) and co-founder of OuLiPo. The book consists of ten sonnets, ingeniously sliced into 14 strips. By flipping the strips left or right, the reader can construct 1014 intelligible poems. OuLiPo's lunatic fringework also included spoonerisms-deliberate slips of the tongue...
Some of the books currently appearing on most-in-demand lists are "Curtain," by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot's last cast), "Roots," by Alex Haley, a black historic document, and "Life after Life," by Raymond Moody Jr., M.D., a book that contains case histories of people whom doctors have declared clinically dead but who lived and recovered...
...take the attitude that even though we own the land, in reality we are only guardians of it," says President Raymond Watson. "When people advise us how they would like to see it developed, we listen." That philosophy has enabled Irvine to gain the support of California ecology groups for its projects. Next, three miles of choice coastline will be developed along the southern edge of the ranch. If California's coastal commission approves, 80% of the property, including hilltops overlooking the ocean, will be left untouched. On the remaining 2,000 acres, Irvine will erect a resort, three...