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More serious -- and moving -- tributes were offered to two absent friends. One afternoon a single spotlight illuminated the Palais stage -- the aura left vacant by Francois Truffaut, who died at 52 last October -- and slowly two dozen figures gathered in the shadows. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and a host of old colleagues were there to wreathe the great director's memory in their affection and gratitude...
...growing frustration among the party's Young Turks with the Democratic rule of the House--and with Republican Leader Robert Michel's collegial approach. The full House is scheduled to vote this week on a move to seat McCloskey. Republicans plan to offer a motion to declare the seat vacant. If that fails, McCloskey will begin his second term--and the unseemly war will probably continue...
...their fans around the world, the British Royal Family seems wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...
Several also expressed concern that the building could remain vacant and open to vandalism while the commission and the University debated its future...
...Harvard officials were just as concerned about the construction delay. "Nobody likes a vacant building," O'Neill added...