Word: ren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brothers who took over the small Central American country in 1956 after the assassination of their father, stuck to their promise that no Somoza would appear on the ballot. But the boys will have a friend in the palace. Elected President by a landslide was former Foreign Minister René Schick, 53, hand-picked choice of the Somozas' Nationalist Liberal Party...
Seven former Premiers and Presidents of the Fourth Republic stood bareheaded in Le Havre last week at the funeral of René Coty, the last President of that era. But it was Charles de Gaulle, the man of the Fifth Republic, who stepped forward to deliver the eulogy. He clearly intended it also to be a funeral oration for the Fourth Republic. Praising Coty's "breadth of vision and good sense," President de Gaulle turned with bitter words to the old "regime, paralyzed by its own confusion," and its leaders, "who failed through impotence...
...Gaulle's health is excellent, except for his failing eyesight. He has had an operation for a cataract on one eye, and vision in the other is dim. Yet vanity makes him try to avoid wearing glasses in public. At last week's funeral of ex-President René Coty, De Gaulle walked ponderously up to the stairs leading to the platform. He put on his glasses and momentarily studied the steps, then whipped the glasses off and strode giraffe-like toward the top. Sure enough, he stumbled over an unnoticed ridge en route...
Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...
Nature is rarely so expensive; Adrian's new hair pieces cost anywhere from $75 for a readymade, solid-color version to the custom-made, many-splendored thing at $500. Adrian (real name: René A. Caricari), who claims to have invented the side wave, the wing wave, the beehive and the Psyche look, will put his hair pieces on view next week for the first time (atop mannequins in Saks's Manhattan windows). He steadily insists that they are more than a passing fancy. "The look for this fall, and next year too, is pure elegance," he says...