Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look of the sort of Harvardman who couldn't even get a job in Washington. And Audrey Hepburn, though she plays with fluent wit and gives the customers a spectacular fashion show, isn't really Holly. Holly isn't the sort of girl who wears her rue with a diffidence. Holly is the sort of girl who thinks that guilt is less valuable than solid gold...
...never thought Kennedy would pass such an anti-democratic law." Cried another: "This damned law is ruining my business. We show them fine jewelry, and they say: 'It's wonderful, but we can't spend more than $100.'" In Paris, a salesgirl in a Rue Royale glove shop said: "Oh, les pauvres Américains I Eef zis 'appen to us, we would do avrysing een our power to disobey, even smuggling. But zee Americains are too weel deesciplined to do sings like...
...anti-Communist war was going. Last fall the Viet Cong opened its new campaign, boosting the killing to an average 800 a month. Many soldiers blamed Diem for keeping political officers in command, refusing to allow even a company to move without his sanction. Along Saigon's Rue Catinat, the sidewalk cafés buzzed with rumors of assassination or a coup...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...
...story. But Condon's rendering of sagebrush legend is only fitfully funny. Proof that the author himself knows that something is wrong is that on almost every page he stops to wave at friends in the crowd. A street in Paris, for instance, is not too slyly titled "Rue Artbuch Wald...