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...always nice"-and Monsieur replies with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat and one lingering waltz before nightfall; then, as abruptly as she came, Irène drives...
...sunburst cheer about the nation, however, Reagan's campaign brought up some darker American forces. He had met with right-wing Fundamentalists like the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, and the glow of presidential approval reflected off them to the religious fringe, on what might be called the Christian certitudinarians, the ones with a hard light of fanaticism in their eyes. These are the people who know they are right. One always wishes to press a copy of the Sermon on the Mount into the hands of a militant Reaganite Christian. Reagan also identified himself with...
...also designed the new "sunburst" cobblestone patterns in front of Boylston Hall. Sometimes landscaping projects have required special efforts, as when he travelled to Connecticut in search of "the right tree" to put in front of Lehman Hall...
Harvard contracted the McDowell Company, a landscape construction business, to build a courtyard in front of Boylston, following a "cobblestone sunburst" design by architects William Presley and Associates...
...Such a sunburst of triumphs and pledges could lead the proverbial visitor from Mars unacquainted with the intricacies of American politics to assume that the quest for the Democratic nomination in 1984 at San Francisco is all but over. Walter Mondale knows better, but he also knows the rules of the Democratic game have changed since the last time around and that there is an advantage to a fast start. A decisive advantage, he hopes. As he puts it, mixing his sports images: "It's like playing a sudden death inning at the beginning of the game." So many...