Word: frenched
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...baby's father, British director GUY RITCHIE. And while a London paper has speculated that a baby boy will be named after Rupert Everett, Madonna's co-star in The Next Best Thing, there are other obvious choices. Since her first child, Lourdes, shares a name with the French town famous for a sighting of the Virgin Mary, perhaps Ms. Ciccone should consider some names where other apparitions have been reported. Among the possibilities: Blangy, Pellevoisin, Gietrzwald, Knock and Cincinnati. Of course, there's always On a Potato...
...minor curiosity of art history: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), a leading French Impressionist painter, friend and mentor to Cezanne and Gauguin, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. An item of literary history: Derek Walcott (1930- ), who would grow up to win the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia...
Occasionally, when preparing to travel abroad, my wife and I practice our French at the dinner table, pretending to be in a Left Bank brasserie ordering braised snails. Also, because my daughter is preverbal, I find myself saying "nummy-num-num" a lot as a way of encouraging her to eat her carrots...
Cohen also conferred with Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, who last year was convicted in absentia in a French court for the 1989 midair destruction of a plane in which 171 people, including the wife of an American diplomat, were killed. The Americans never mentioned that incident. "What was the point of bringing this up?" asks the consultant who traveled with Cohen. "We wanted to establish a dialogue...
...talking 2. His invention made skyscrapers feasible 3. A __ bagatelle 4. He's not interested in the Veep slot 5. Org. once headed by a Bush 6. The Pope is visiting here 7. French pastry 8. Middle name of the 21st President 9. Saucy 10. Business card abbr. 12. Like some rocket fuel 19. O Sole __ 21. Car in a 1964 hit song 24. Rocky, for one 25. Absorbed, as a loss 26. Sought a seat 28. Like some vbs. 29. Soccer standout Hamm 30. 20/20 network 34. Tapes over, perhaps 35. __ deferens 36. AMD is shipping this...