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...second bill to be submitted to Parliament next year. But the first step was impressive enough. Said the liberal newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris: "We went to sleep in July in a Jacobin state more in the tradition of the monarchy than of the French Revolution. And voilà, we woke up in August in a decentralized country. What an adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Paris Lets Go | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...resolution to a wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Dallas: Whodunit? | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...have been a quiet little coup, executed with characteristic French panache from behind the scenes. The successor had been picked, paratroops were at the ready, and when the despised dictator left the country, voilà! "Operation Barracuda" would go into effect. So well, in fact, did the plot come off that when tyrannical Emperor Bokassa I was overthrown in the Central African Empire two weeks ago, it was hailed as a triumph of sanity over murderous despotism. By last week, however, the French connection in the affair was proving an embarrassment, and the all too Francophile new regime of President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: French Fiddling | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...This is the border," says Irene Bolduc, stepping in off her porch and pointing to the edge of a doorframe. "See, over in the living room, you are in the United States. Step into the kitchen, et voilà, you are in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partly in Vermont: A Borderline Case | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...different realistic sets; even with plywood, the expense would run a production close to $1 million. He must economize, but still make opera look grand. He should also take no more than a few seconds changing scenes within acts, the restless bottoms of Met patrons being what they are. Voilà! the unit set, that occasional blessing and frequent curse of modern stagecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Playing Rigoletto Up Front | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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