Word: laing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...works out daily with a trainer, hanging out at hotel gyms when he is on the road. On weekends he heads for a beach club in Rabat to race jet skis with friends. In Marrakech he is spotted at restaurants in the Casbah or at the city's fabled La Mamounia Hotel, where he recently startled some Cabinet ministers accustomed to free meals by taking out his wallet and paying a lunch...
...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and 15) PAULINE AT THE BEACH If there's anything worse than a beach, it's a French beach. In Ryan, Spielberg's American soldiers are slaughtered as they de-boat on D-day in a rain of enemy fire. In Pauline a la plage, Eric Rohmer's protagonist probably wishes for shrapnel to off her, if only to spare her the pointless banter of her tacky, divorce cousin...
...once famously referred to his Mexican-American grandchildren, including George P., as "the little brown ones," recently urged his son's campaign to hold a national Hispanic event aimed at luring Hispanics away from the Democrats. The way things are going, the Republican Convention will be a fiesta de la familia...
...merely to indicate how out of it one is. My father's generation seemed to be surprised by everything--a TV set, automatic shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...
...ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...