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Michel Fribourg.(Obituary)
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April 23, 2001
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Michel Fribourg, chairman emeritus of the ContiGroup Companies, died April 10 in New York, N.Y. He was 87.
During five decades as chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Grain, now ContiGroup Companies, Fribourg expanded his family's business into more than 70 countries and transformed Continental into one of the largest agribusiness firms in the world.
Born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1913, Fribourg spent his 63-year business career with Continental Grain, first in Europe and then in the U.S. He served as the company's CEO from 1944 to 1988 and as ...
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Vocabulary
Newspaper article from: Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; ...Literal Meaning What were Philemon and Baucis doing when the strangers arrived...What happens to the town where Philemon and Baucis lived? How does Jupiter keep...did Jupiter decide not to let Philemon and Baucis drown with everyone else...
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THE THATCHED VISOR IN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AND VIOLA'S BEARD IN TWELFTH NIGHT
Magazine article from: AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association
; ...Metamorphoses. Ovid tells the story of the old peasant couple Philemon and Baucis, who shared their meagre meal with the disguised Jupiter...help. He too explains that the story of Baucis and Philemon is found in Golding's translation of Ovid (1567...
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Irina Murav'eva: Filemon i Bavkida: Povesti, rasskazy.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...doomed romance between two prison inmates. In "Philemon and Baucis," the title story of the other volume of Muravyova...Member of the Gentry" (also included in the "Philemon and Baucis" collection), a late-twentieth-century reprise...
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The shape of the script. (Dance Theater).(Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses")(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine
; ...fills her with a carnal passion for her father. Philemon and Baucis, having been gracious to the gods, are granted...towards death over and over and over again. And Philemon and Baucis entwine for a final, eternal kiss as they turn...
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The Nomadic Soul.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...Nomadic Soul," "Lala, Natasha, Toma," and "Philemon and Baucis." The longest of the three, "The Nomadic Soul...objects of affection. The last of the stories, "Philemon and Baucis," is set decades later at a dacha outside Moscow...
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 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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The Nomadic Soul, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia)
; ...arresting focus. The more evidently fictional story "Philemon and Baucis," about an aging couple in the perestroika years...processes of unconscious repression break down as Zhenya/Baucis rapidly loses grip of reality, floundering in a grotesque...
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Life for the nineties.(old age and suicide)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...him. The most touching of all Greek legends tells of Philemon and Baucis, who though old and destitute admitted and nourished...any favor they chose. There was only one wish, said Philemon: that when the time came, they should die simultaneously...
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Master in miniature: a virtually comprehensive exhibition in Edinburgh reveals why Adam Elsheimer was such a great--and greatly influential--master of the northern baroque, as David Howarth discovers.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...subversive himself. His Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Bands (Fig. 1) is quite extraordinary. Much...like a soldier having a cigarette in a dug out, while Philemon and Baucis bring in the washing. Elsheimer is playing games with...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; DRAWING (COLOR) SEE MICROFILM FOR BAUCIS AND PHILEMON (A TALE FROM ANCIENT GREECE) ADAPTED BY AMY FRIEDMAN. THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
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Kommentar zur Artusepik Hartmanns von Aue. Im Anhang: Die Heilkunde und Der Ourobos.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...lwein's wooing of Laudine; the puellae ancilla of Ovid's Ars amatoria as a model for Lunete; the stories of Philemon and Baucis from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and of Bacchus lodging with the peasant Falernus from the Pontica of Silius Italicus...
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