Word: boucher
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...Games, it's Calgary vs. Cosby & Co., with ABC tossing a formidable array against NBC's stronghold lineup. -- A speed-skating battle royal as the U.S.'s Thometz and Jansen sprint against a passel of contenders, including Canada's Gaetan Boucher, winner of the gold in 1984. -- The U.S.'s Brian Boitano and Canada's Brian Orser each skate electrifying, near perfect two- minute programs. Even Cliff Huxtable wouldn't miss tonight's head-to-head: 6.0s could be in the air. -- On tape: Swiss Downhillers Michela Figini and Maria Walliser (one-two at Sarajevo) renew their pell-mell...
What is known is that Fragonard was born in Grasse, in Provence, in 1732. His father, a glovemaker, apparently moved the family in 1738 to Paris, where young Honore was apprenticed to two distinguished and influential artists, Chardin and Boucher. At the latter's suggestion, Fragonard applied for (and won) the Prix de Rome. He returned to Paris after his studies in Italy, was admitted to the Academy in 1765 -- membership entitled him to an apartment at the Louvre -- and became a commercial success...
Another apparent example of sloppy procedures nearly led to the death of an Eastern Express pilot last week. Pilot Henry Dempsey and Co-Pilot Paul Boucher took off in a Beechcraft 99 commuter plane from Portland, Me., without any passengers -- and seemingly without the rear door securely fastened. When Dempsey went back to close it, the plane ran into turbulence, and he was tossed against the door. Hinged at the bottom, it swung down, and Dempsey fell forward with it. He clung to the door, head down, with only his legs inside the aircraft...
...controls, Boucher assumed that the pilot had dropped into the Atlantic and asked for a Coast Guard search. But when he made an emergency landing at Portland International Jetport, Boucher discovered happily that Dempsey was still hanging on to the door. His head had missed striking the ground by 12 inches. He suffered only a bruised wrist...
Other works on display include Francois Boucher's "Mme. de Pompadour and her Toilet," Kirchner's "Self-Portrait with a Cat," the Egyptian "Stele of Ramses II," and the likenesses of such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Louis XIV, Nero, and Oliver Wendall Holmes...