Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NUBIANS Princesses Nubiennes (Omtown). Helene and Celia Faussart, singing sisters from Bordeaux, France, boast a global sound: they take African rhythms and American soul and top them off with a cool, seductive delivery that's distinctively French. A magical musical package tour...
Bove has a long and colorful history as a rabble rouser. Born in Bordeaux in 1953, he spent most of his first seven years in Berkeley, where his parents studied biochemistry at the University of California. Back in France, he refused to do his military service and dropped out of Bordeaux University to immerse himself in various leftist political and ecological movements. In 1975 he and his wife decided to move to the country, take up sheep farming and join a local peasant movement against the planned extension of an army base in southern France. Arrested for "invading" the base...
...acknowledgment that seniors increasingly prefer to locate near longtime friends and family and not move to far-off sunny climes. Prices range from $130,000 for a single-level fourplex to $750,000 for customized estate homes that include home theaters, Jacuzzis and wine cellars, where an eminent Bordeaux can age along with its owners...
Last night, for example, I and a bunch of other journalists stayed late into the evening at the press center in the town of Pau carefully crafting our stories about the allegations of drug use against Armstrong--unfounded, it seems. I had to be in Bordeaux--a city three hours away--by morning, so I filed my story about 10, packed quickly and took a taxi to Bordeaux. By 2 a.m. the taxi driver and I were engaged in a fascinating discussion about drugs and the effect they had on cycling...
Last night, for example, I and a bunch of other journalists stayed late into the evening at the press center in the town of Pau carefully crafting our stories about the allegations of drug use against Armstrong--unfounded, it seems. I had to be in Bordeaux--a city three hours away--by morning, so I filed my story about 10, packed quickly and took a taxi to Bordeaux. By 2 a.m. the taxi driver and I were engaged in a fascinating discussion about drugs and the effect they have had on cycling...