Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million women have an abortion every year in France. I declare that I am one of them." Who? Actresses Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau and Micheline Presle, Writers Françoise Sagan and Simone de Beauvoir-plus 338 other Frenchwomen who signed a statement that was published in a Paris weekly last week favoring legalized abortion. The admission made each one of them liable to a fine of up to $1,300 and six months to two years in jail, though most women who are apprehended get suspended sentences. One of the few female headliners whose names were missing was Brigitte...
...HOURS OF SUNLIGHT by Françoise Sagan. 185 pages. Harper...
...beautiful woman identifies the magazine as the latest Paris Vogue. Inside, things are far from standard. In an effort to increase circulation and dress up its Christmas issue, Paris Vogue has twice chosen a guest editor for its year-end edition. Last year she was Françoise Sagan, who limited her tasks to writing only a couple of pages. This year the choice was Actress Jeanne Moreau, who does nothing halfheartedly...
Item: Françoise Sagan opened her seventh play, proving that her precocious fame sprang from the trick of being middle-aged at 18; now that she is middle-aged at 35, her characters are trying to recapture teen raptures. That is all there is to A Piano on the Grass...
...process was remarkably efficient. Carl Sagan, director of Cornell's Planetary Studies Laboratory, calculates that as much as 36% of the ammonia was converted into amino acids-a far better yield than that obtained in tests using ultraviolet radiation. Reason: the temperature rises resulting from the shock waves were too brief to break up any of the newly formed molecules. Indeed, the shock-tube process worked so well that Sagan has suggested a highly practical application: a cheap method of making amino acids for protein food supplements to fight malnutrition...