Word: sur
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...measure, the President's speech commemorating the veterans' sacrifice at Omaha Beach was one of sensitivity and grace. Earlier, he paid tribute to the Rangers who had climbed the forbidding cliffs at Pointe du Hoc with ladders and grappling hooks. He stopped by Utah Beach before arriving at Colleville-sur-Mer, where nearly 10,000 Americans from all of Europe's battlefields are buried. The hand of Providence seemed for once to touch Clinton, who has had his share of ceremonial glitches. Just as he began to speak the sun came out, etching in breathtaking brilliance the white crosses against...
...among the deepest of compulsions in Western civilization: to own what we love. Sometimes the object of our possessiveness is a house or a spouse. For Lise, a six-year-old from Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the demands are simpler. She wants three dolls, among thousands on display in the huge, sumptuous Disney Superstore on Paris' Champs Elysees. Lise and her mother are in delicate negotiation. Maman suggests either the Cinderella doll or a pair of less expensive figurines; Lise wants it all. This time Mother wins. But they'll be back for more. They always come back...
...American Clave recordings showcase every aspect of Piazzolla's brilliance; it is hard to imagine a music lover of any sort who would not immediately fall in love with the erotic sensibility and impassioned brilliance displayed on these albums. By the time you get to the mournful "Sur: Regreso Al Amor," the last track on La Camorra, (a tune which is a perfect illustration of just how much contemporary avant-guard American artists like Tom Waits have drawn from Piazzolla's work) you will have gone on an aural journey with one of the twentieth century's true musical geniuses...
Think of them as a matched pair of undersea loudspeakers, one sunk off the coast of California near Big Sur, the other near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A blast from one of these big woofers would be loud enough to be heard in the water for thousands of miles--and loud enough to damage or destroy the hearing of any animal that swam too close...
Thanks to everyone who participated. And congratulations to David, who will get a gift certificate to Herrell's, as well as bags of Hershey's "Hugs" and--mais bien sur--"Kisses...