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Total Amateur. But when she allows herself to look back on how things were during the three years it took to write Ordinary People, cleverness and common sense struggle with a kind of Erma Bombeck rue. "Nobody had any underwear," she recollects. "Truth to tell, my family is very tolerant. But some days I'd look at the house and think it was a mess and say to myself 'Why are you doing this?' " She wrote in the mornings when the house emptied, never at night. And rarely in the summer because the boys were...
...breathed easier as their earthen dams continued to hold against the crested Souris River, but 400,000 acres were flooded, dampening the area's harvest hopes for another season. At week's end most of America shifted to Daylight Saving Time, the better to enjoy, or rue, whatever nature has in store...
...Surveillance du Territoire (DST) had been alerted by Lebanese authorities that a terrorist courier, Michel Moukarbel, was on his way from Beirut with money and instructions for an agent in Paris. Moukarbel was arrested in France and led three DST agents to Carlos' apartment on the Rue Toullier, near the Sorbonne. Confronted with the informer, Carlos pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired five shots. Moukarbel and two of the agents were killed; the third was critically wounded...
Named after François-Pierre de la Varenne, a 17th century French chef who wrote four treatises on food that are recognized as the first modern cookbooks, the Franglais school occupies an old restaurant building on the Left Bank's fashionable Rue St. Dominique. Unlike the Cordon Bleu, which shuns up-to-date kitchen machinery and has, in the polite words of Gourmet Writer Craig Claiborne, "an aura of the last century," La Varenne has two bright, buzzing, modern kitchens. One is at street level, used as the working classroom; the other, on the second floor...
...than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel's First Lady, a homebody at last in her Tel Aviv semidetached, the accomplish ments and the anecdotes cannot cloak the final rue...