Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failed air raid marked a turning point in France's role in the conflict, which has raged over Libyan claims to the reputedly uranium-rich Aozou Strip in northern Chad. While France maintains a 1,300-troop garrison in Chad and has provided some $90 million in military aid this year to its former colony, the French have resisted being drawn deeper into the conflict. Defense Minister Andre Giraud expressed "deepest regrets" over the stepped-up fighting, though he declared that France will continue to defend the Chadian capital from attack. Premier Jacques Chirac last week repeated calls...
After centuries of hewing to tradition, followed by decades of Western | imitation, Japanese designers now feel free to create singular, exciting hybrids of East and West. The new architecture is ambitious and confident, with stars like Arata Isozaki getting international notice. Graphics aspire to art, interiors are rich with allusion, and never before has there been such ferment...
Gershwin tended to be facile in his attitude toward classical music: "I'd like to write a quartet some day," he mused. "But it will be something simple, like Mozart." Even today, when the rich harmonies of A Foggy Day and The Man I Love have become pop classics and jazz standards, the High Gershwin of Porgy and Bess and Concerto in F finds detractors. They began sounding sour notes as early as 1925, when the New York Times critic found the concerto's "instrumentation . . . neither flesh, fowl nor good red herring." Composer Virgil Thomson wrote, "Gershwin does not even...
...Stamford, Conn., to the Buckhead area of Atlanta, luxury houses that start at $500,000 and run well over $1 million are sprouting in unprecedented numbers. Reason: the unusually long five-year-old economic expansion and the record-breaking stock market advance have rapidly swelled the ranks of the rich. Says Ray Gentile, a builder on Long Island's North Shore: "A shocking number of people have suddenly become wealthy, and they want to show the world. Their luxury home is the ultimate present to themselves...
Many of the new rich want to live like the old rich, and that is reflected in the classically grand facades of their houses. "One might look like Mount Vernon, one like the White House and one like Monticello," says Randolph Williams, developer of more than 20 luxury-home communities in the Washington suburbs. Inside, the new mansions often combine traditional elegance and modern glitz. Among the common features are mahogany trim, granite counter tops, marble floors, custom-made Palladian windows and spectacularly high ceilings...