Word: affaires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, every party has its poopers. Parisians grumbled about draconian parking restrictions. Opposition leaders complained that the three-day affair was costly evidence of Mitterrand's "megalomania" (estimates range from $66 million to $280 million), moving Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang...
...never explains why Susan and Dinah argue, or why each responds to the fight the way she does. Dinah's loneliness leads to her new relationship with Itzak, a renowned flautist. But this development seems almost a non sequitur to the rest of the plot. So does the affair between Laurie and Jimmy, who have been friends since childhood...
...drama centers around the woman's inability to remember something that happened to a friend of hers after their graduation from a South African girls school. In fragments, the story of the woman and her lesbian affair with a schoolmate, Daisy Summers, is revealed...
...wonderful sense of place and the narrator's eye for details soon become monotonous. The affair the woman has with one of her teachers, and even her borderline incestuous relationship with her mother, are described so coldly, so myopically that it is difficult for the reader to understand or sympathize...
...Crew is a family affair: Cinader's 28-year-old daughter Emily is the firm's president and chief of design, though she had no previous business experience when she joined the company in late 1982. Another daughter, Maud, 23, directs location photography for J. Crew. Nepotism may work: the company expects that its catalog sales this year will reach $150 million, up 50% from...