True Romance

they have exhibited an individualism and an egalitarianism admired and emulated by the rest of society. As settlement advanced from east to west, U.S. agriculture attained a richness and variety unmatched in most other parts of the world. This is true still today, in large part owing to the quantity of land and the generosity of nature. Only in a relatively small portion of the western United States is rainfall so limited that deserts exist. Elsewhere, rainfall ranges from modest to abundant, and

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programmers relied on in-depth analyses of the problem at hand. If they did any analysis at all, it was typically on the back of a napkin. They often wrote programs from the ground up, creating code as they went along. Although this added an aura of romance and daring to the process, it has proved to be inappropriate in today’s high-stakes business world. Today a well-thought-out plan is crucial. A client has to understand what a development team is going to do, and must be able to indicate changes if

least the numerous student architects who have been subjected to various forms of teaching related to its development. Some of them have said things, or done things in their designs, that have prompted thoughts which are included here. The same is true of my colleagues in architectural education, in particular those I work with week by week in the Welsh School of Architecture. Some of the examples were suggested by Kieren Morgan, Colin Hockley, Rose Clements, John Carter, Claire Gibbons, Geoff Cheason

fit imprimer à Caen ses Origines de quelques coutumes anciennes et façons de parler triviales. En 1780, Harduin lut à l'Académie d'Arras des Recherches sur le langage art3sien. En 1786, le Dictionnaire du vieux langage, contenant aussi la langue romance ou provençale et la normande, fut mis au jour en deux volumes. En 1841, les patois et dialectes de la langue d'Oil (bourguignon, normand, picard et walon) fournirent la matière de plusieurs articles dans les Mémoires de l'Académie de Douai. Quant

conduite avec Mme de Monaco (Saint-Simon, No 383); son aventure sous le lit de Mme de Montespan, le roi y étant avec elle. Sans l'attention aux petites choses, ce caractère reste invisible aux femmes. 73 When Minna Toil heard a tale of woe or of romance, it 225 DE L'AMOUR s'élève, moins il est visible, et il est puni de sa grandeur par la solitude de l'âme. De l'orgueil féminin naît ce que les femmes appellent les manques de délicatesse. Je crois que cela ressemble assez à ce que les rois

son acception originelle, un terme d’ordre technique ou économique exempt de toute connotation, péjorative ou autre. L’abondance des remakes américains de films français dans les années 1980 et 1990 (comme Trois hommes et un bébé, de Léonard Nimoy et True Lies, de James Cameron), dans un contexte marqué par des tensions entre la France et les Etats-Unis concernant la production de biens culturels (autour des accords du Gatt) explique la popularisation du terme en France et aussi l’extension de son champ

continue to remain strong as the popularity of hardwood (and imitation hardwood) floors persists among consumers. According to Home Accents Today, “Americans’ love affair with hardwood and tile floors continues, and the area rug market fuels the romance with attractive designs at the high and low ends of the market.” Retail stores with large floor space to display the products, such as discount department stores/off-price retailers and home improvement centers/warehouse membership clubs, dominate

provided he maintains his character, and makes him not unlike himself. Translation is a kind of drawing after the life; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of likeness, a good one and a bad. ‘Tis one thing to draw the outlines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowings, and, chiefly, by the spirit which animates the whole191 Tytler, qui adhérait aussi à

economic conditions and trends are newsworthy, the current state of news reporting is probably inadequate. A […] serious criticism is that news organization are increasingly adopting the format and logic of entertainment programs. It is certainly true that newspapers, television networks, and news stations have scaled back the scope of their news-gathering activities in response to economic pressures. These developments impede the development of informed public opinion because the public now