Word: rue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer should have known better, of course. He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg. His excuse was that after seven years abroad he had moved from Paris to Los Angeles. And as everyone knows, the distance between the Rue de la Paix and the Pacific Coast Highway is measured not in flying hours but in light-years. Catapulted from the European fixation with the past into the Californian intoxication with the future, the returning expatriate felt he had been gone for half a century, and sometimes that he had been born yesterday...
Cornwell's conclusion is that John Paul I died of a pulmonary embolism. (In 1978 the Vatican had said a heart attack was the cause.) His death apparently resulted from long-standing medical problems that were exacerbated by the early pressures of being Pope. Still, Rome may rue the day it encouraged Cornwell. The full story of the Pope's death, says Cornwell, is "much more shameful" than mere murder, and "the whole of the Vatican is responsible." In the days before he died, says Cornwell, John Paul suffered severe chest pains and swelling of his legs, yet nobody sought...
...society unconstrained by multinational capitalism." SOS-Racisme, a civil rights group, for example, will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government has gone too far in snubbing controversial revolutionary leaders. "They...
...Kelly's Rue du Parc-Royal headquarters, Aunt Jemima rag dolls flop on a Louis Vuitton footlocker. Josephine Baker posters loom over a rainbow coalition of assistants. When Kelly's cousin Michael Thomas, a 345-lb. trucker, came to see the Louvre debut, he brought 20 packages of grits. ("Patrick said, 'If you don't bring no grits, don't come," said Thomas, grinning.) The models really chowed down. "I'm not the Great Black Hope, honey," says Kelly. "But it's like the old song, 'You use what you got to get what you want...
...figures from her past, who in turn trigger memories and fantasies that make her see how she has ducked life's embrace. She has turned a best friend into a bitterly disappointed acquaintance; pregnancy into abortion; what might have been a passionate, lifesaving affair into an occasion for romantic rue...