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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bass tones, Lute repertoire covers a wide stylistic range, made up largely of pieces inspired by country dances but also encompassing slower memorial and funerary pieces as well as early canons. My favorite piece of the evening was a series of variations by Jacob Reys on the popular tune Une Jeune Fillette, in which the melody is tossed back and fourth between two voices that seem never quite to catch it. The melody is continually in the air, bouncing like a beach ball on the contrapunctal complexity of the music...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soundtrack for a Titian | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Leaning toward me, leering at me, he intoned, "T'as une cigarette...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Elvis is Alive | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

Chung made another important mistake when he commented about the PQ's slogan "une nouvelle facon de gouverner." He wrote that this slogan had a double meaning and that the new government's "real agenda--hidden to the public--is separation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chung's Distortion of Quebec's Situation Fuels Separatism | 9/28/1994 | See Source »

...week champion PQ against the ruling Liberal Party in a familiar situation the PQ campaigned strongly as the voice of change in government, condemning the liberals inability to manage the economy and blaming the Liberals endlessly for Quebec's slow recovery from the recession. They won on the slogan "une nouvelle facon de gouverner" (a new way of governing), but what Quebeceta were not told about was the insidious double entendre of this slogan: although Parizeau campaigned on a promise to change the way the provincial government manages its economy, his real agenda to the public separation...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Stealing Quebec | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

...biography of Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand has revealed new information of Mitterrand's youthful extreme right-wing sympathies and later his role in the collaborationist Vichy government in World War II. Une Jeunesse Francaise (A French Youth), by journalist Pierre Pean, was written with Mitterrand's cooperation and depicts Mitterrand as a young nationalist with sympathies for fascist regimes and later, as an ambitious official in Vichy. The book also says Mitterrand joined the Resistance only in 1943, later than he has previously claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week August 28 - September 3 | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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