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Liza Minnelli , fresh from her Oscar-winning performance in "Cabaret," belted out " Bonjour Paris !" together with the U.S. contingent's 36 models—half of them black at a time when more than one black was rare on a French runway—and everybody bathed in the simple but dramatic pools of light demanded by Ms. Lambert.
U.S. Fashion's First Voice Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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One can only imagine the private conversations - the blunt economic language - in the conference rooms of Asian financiers and exporters, each group as confident of its contingent's coming hour as executives in Manhattan and Chicago circa 1919 were of America's: Why don't the Americans take care of their industry and invest in it?
American Theocracy JDsg 2007
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Meanwhile, Nicolette Bethel, a writer and theatre director who serves as director of culture in the Bahamas, reported on herarrivalin Guyana and then thefrustrating discoverythat the Bahamian contingent's entire container of costumes, stage sets, artworks and artifacts had failed to leave the Bahamas.
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"Despite the British contingent's troubles in the south, Basra is reasonably orderly," he writes.
Archive 2007-03-01 Helen 2007
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Unfortunately, if you move to a part of Mexico where there is a large gringo contingent, the rude and boorish nature of much of U.S. culture is magnified and made more intolerable by that contingent's artificial encroachment on a culture where aggressive and boorish behavior is considered antithetical to civilized norms.
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Makhado also kept the keys of the safe containing the contingent's cash.
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His Defense Minister Patrick Lekota said the South African contingent's size had yet to be determined but would be established once the cease-fire was in place.
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His small independent house's success with Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain was making him the leader of the American contingent's growing small-is-beautiful pack.
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His small independent house's success with Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain was making him the leader of the American contingent's growing small-is-beautiful pack.
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The contingent's norms and principles were applied there.
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