Word: reveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally feel, we hope, that it is better liked, better understood and better protected." Virtually no one, apart from Socialist and Communist idealogues, saw the leftist victory as a sign of popular support for Mitterrand's nationalization and economic reform program. Rather, as Journalist Jean-François Revel put it, Giscard's "strange defeat was due to the most common illness among those who exercise power: the loss of contact with reality...
...Express Owner Jimmy Goldsmith, a dual French and British citizen, who is a devout conservative and staunch admirer of Giscard. The eventual election results did not help either. Last week Goldsmith sacked L'Express Managing Editor Olivier Todd, and, in turn, Editor in Chief Jean-François Revel resigned in protest...
...week), costing around $150 to $200 per person per day, is one of the few vacation bargains left. Meals, entertainment and most island sightseeing are all included in the ticket price; about the only extra expenses are for souvenirs and the cheap, duty-free drinks. Says Sam Revel, owner of a Beverly Hills travel agency: "First of all, people want to relax. They don't want to hurry around airports, worry about what kind of hotels they'll be in, pack and unpack. On a cruise, everything...
...perpetually half-shut eyes. With his hairline receding and the lines of his face hardening now into some sort of death mask. Nicholson doesn't try to play Chambers as the twenty-three year old punk Cain envisioned. Instead he slouches around like a bored satyr. He seems to revel in his decay, in his unnerving ability to play an utterly reptilian Don Juan...
...guard hunched over the sculptures, his hands on his knees, neck twisted to look at me. His eyes were full of amazement and disbelief. Even the gallery guards in Munich are consumed by the city's art. Munich produces little that is really new, but its citizens revel in what they have and overwhelm visitors with their enthusiasm...