Word: tes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin just how welcome...
...guardian of the gullible," as Mrs. Peterson styles herself, invades supermarkets throughout the nation to document such casuistic come-ons as the "jumbo quart" (exact volume unspecified), the "25?-off" special (off what?), and the "all-new" product (only the price is). Among her particular bêtes noires are the "giant-size" box that contains more air than substance and the practice of pricing by fractions, whih forces the consumer to decide between, say, a 1-lb. 4½-oz. can of pineapple chunks at 37? and three 15¼-oz. cans for 89? (which, ounce by ounce...
...carefully calculated to win back the several million voters fed up with overcrowded apartments, roads and schools, to say nothing of his cavalier attitude toward the Common Market. Shortly after De Gaulle was inaugurated with a brief (30-minute) private ceremony in the flower-packed Salle des Fêtes at the Elysée Palace, Pompidou announced the new Cabinet. Principal changes...
...combine slabs of bright paint (the thick impasto on one canvas weighs upwards of 300 bs.) with recognizable imagery, that won him international regard. The combination seemed fresh in the inbred postwar School of Paris abstraction that had reduced paint into drab pastry, a ritualistic manufacture of croûtes (crusty surfaces) that lacked the restless energy of American abstract expressionism
...enemy cannon balls redden the earth around them. "I planned a ceiling, he plans a miracle," declares the Holy Father, then to his troops: "What are you waiting for? Attack!" And Agony skirts the question of the artist's homosexuality in provocative tête-à-têtes with a fervent Contessina de Medici (Diane Cilento). The noblewoman presumably deduces his impotence when he tells her that God has compelled him to substitute the love of art for the art of love. "Love," she concludes, "is either agony or ecstasy-sometimes both at once...