Word: sur
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Monette, a poet and novelist, gushes awkwardly about this brief golden age: "Roger and I were busy getting ready for a four-day trip to Big Sur, something we'd done almost yearly since moving to California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works...
After 8 years, Valjean has changed his name and become the mayor of Montreuil-Sur-Mer, and he finds himself involved with the case of Fantine (Diane Fratantoni), a woman who finds she must work as a prostitute to pay for the care of her small daughter...
...Major, Opus 120, was diffident and unfocused, and while the intricate variations of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes were dutifully expounded, the piece never gathered the headlong passion that should make its concluding march a shout of triumph. Better were three movements from Olivier Messiaen's dazzling Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus, in which Feltsman temporarily relaxed his inhibitions to project the music's ferocious rhythms and clashing polytonal harmonies. Best of all were the encores. In Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, he caressed the delicate, almost impressionistic filigree, and he unleashed an impressively big sound on Beethoven...
...feeling good is a religion, its cathedral is Esalen. The nerve center of the counterculture, the cradle of Gestalt therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...charge that Aquino has been too soft on the 18-year-old Communist insurgency, which has intensified since the collapse of a cease-fire agreement last February. The day after the election, ten policemen were killed in an ambush by the Communist New People's Army in Surigao del Sur province on Mindanao. At week's end 38 people were killed in scattered guerrilla attacks around the country, bringing the number of insurgency-related deaths this year to more than 1,000. Said a top-ranking general: "The soldiers are not free to move or do what they think ought...