Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor real-life woman characters took to bed for a week). Aldous Huxley did a number on D.H. Lawrence as the brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand Cyrus (1649), encoded in fiction the court of Louis XIV. H.G. Wells savaged Winston Churchill under the cover of Rupert Catskill in Men Like Gods...
...usually sedate French National Assembly has lately become a scene of turmoil and dissension. Cabals of Deputies huddle up and down the splendid baronial halls. Ministers discuss the latest parliamentary tricks. The visitors' gallery is packed. Reason for all the drama: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's proposed capital gains...
...French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing likes to say, "France represents what is best in the world." But not, surely, when it comes to telephones. By almost any standard, France trails the rest of the major countries. It has the fewest private telephones in relation to total population (117.5 per 1,000 v. 460 per 1,000 in the U.S.), the fewest public ones (4.3 per 1,000 v. 13.9 in West Germany), and the longest waiting time for new installations (up to seven years...
From the moment he alighted in the U.S. last week, France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing put his-and his country's-best foot forward...
...with Led Zeppelin, complains that "everybody in the business knows a new era has got to come, but they're too busy cashing in on the old one to help it along." Some are helping, either by working their own personal territory (like Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits and James Talley) or, like Simon, Dylan, Bruce Springsteen (TIME cover, Oct. 27) or The Band, trying to make their private property public. There are superb performers (like Linda Ronstadt), and wizardry writers (like Jackson Browne) who are learning the tricks of showmanship. But finding spirited new directions for music...