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Rosenblatt has been called a conservative by liberals a liberal by conservatives, and a robust-if flashy-administrator by many of his colleagues...
...leaving office 18 months before. He took two strolls, one alone and one with his wife Yvonne, around his beloved nine-acre country estate, La Boisserie (the woodland glade), in the tiny farming village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 120 miles southeast of Paris. At noon, he ate a robust lunch, topped off by one of his favorite cream pastries and his usual cup of extra-strong coffee. He chatted with a neighboring farmer, René Piot, about fencing an adjoining piece of land that he had recently purchased...
...debilitating that he had to keep oxygen at his bedside. Cancer was also an old enemy and, as it turned out, the final one. When he died last week at 75, the disease had so ravaged Cushing's 6-ft. frame that he had wasted from a robust 200 Ibs. to a mere...
...gross national product rose at an annual rate of 6% in the third quarter-but added that most of the gain consisted of price increases. Without them, the real rise was 1.4%, which was better than the .6% of growth in the second quarter but still not very robust. The most comprehensive indicator of prices, the so-called G.N.P. price deflator, rose at an annual rate of 4.4% in the third quarter, less than last winter but slightly more than in the second quarter. And, significantly, industrial production fell last month by 1.7%, the sharpest drop in ten years; even...
...Classicism is health," wrote Goethe. "Romanticism a disease." By those very rigid standards, First Love is a sick film-admirably sick with love. It is also the robust debut of a film maker to be admired and watched. Just about every actor insists that "what I really want to do is direct." Maximilian Schell has not been content merely to yearn; he has made it happen...