Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people, we have engaged the services of Jean Gruault, who has written some of the finest and most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...some rotting beams and occasionally taking ax to them. His chosen weapon is extravagant caricature: never was the difference between court and greenwood so violently underscored. Where a straight production might present an orderly, ceremonious court and a rustically relaxed forest, Belgrader gives neither. His court is a Louis XIV anachronism, the women nearly immobile in skirts like giant hat-boxes, the men waving white kerchiefs and gloves to punctuate their mincing. Arden is a small businessman's Hawaii vacation-dream; the Duke and his entourage wear leis and grass skirts like conventioneers just off the plane...
...book is a catalogue of these arrogant viewpoints and dealings. The du Ponts' lifestyles and attitudes are startling anachronisms, for when the family crossed the Atlantic they brought with them the values of Louis XIV. From the start of their business in the United States the du Ponts viewed themselves as privileged individuals, and Blood Relations is the absorbing account of the two hundred years they flaunted their self-declared superiority...
...order submitted in January to Miami's Bond Plumbing Supply Inc. seemed fit for King Louis XIV: a custom-made sunken bathtub, a sink with 24-karat gold-plated faucets, pastel blue toi lets, a "harvest gold" bidet with chrome-plated trim, even a portable Jacuzzi. But when Carol Cherrey, office manager and taxpayer, saw the name on the $8,934 or der, she said she "blew my stack." The deluxe fixtures were ostensibly ordered for a vocational instruction class at MacArthur South High School. Yet MacArthur, a school for 235 troubled youths, had no plumbing class...
...winning-is-everything world of professional football, Noll is an anomaly, an unassuming craftsman among tough-talking generals. Quietly, efficiently, he performs. When the Steelers rallied to defeat the Los Angeles Rams, 31-19, in Super Bowl XIV, they established themselves as the finest team ever, better than Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers of the 1960s, Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the 1950s and George Halas' Chicago Bears of the 1940s. The Packers may have won five N.F.L. championships in seven years, including Super Bowls I and II, but the Steelers, reflecting the rapid evolution...