Word: alain
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...world, he's rather more entertaining. He has a job as a paste-up technician with a calendar publisher, which rejects his attempts to become an artist (his sample illustrations are dreamy, childlike representations of disasters, natural and man-made). The office is dominated by lusty, corner-cutting Guy (Alain Chabat) who besides cracking bad, sexually charged jokes attempts to woo Stephane to the dark side: girls, booze, mild working-world rebelliousness. These passage are not wildly inventive, but at least they return us to that place where movies function most comfortably, a naturalistic world that is, of course, intensified...
...Still, it's not as if there are no second acts in French politics. Alain Jupp?, the former prime minister and close Chirac ally convicted in 2004 for his role in a scheme to put party workers on the Paris city payroll, is proving as much. After a forced vacation from civic life, much of it spent teaching politics in Quebec, Jupp? is back in play this autumn. Last month party colleagues in his power base of Bordeaux resigned en masse from the city council, forcing new elections. Jupp? is expected to walk to victory next month as the mayor...
...cities. Still to come: Albuquerque, N.M.; Woodland, Texas; Wailea, Hawaii; the Virgin Islands; Lisbon; Brussels; and more. "The world map looks smaller than ever before. In 2007 Europe will be very big. We're accelerating that, based on my acquisition of strategic brands," says Azria, referring to designer retailers Alain Manoukian and Don Algodôn and French couturier Hervé Léger. "We're fantastic in Asia because China is booming and that market has known and liked me for 15 years. Japan is unbelievable. Canada is as good...
...robust rules of engagement in the Ivory Coast) and what not to do (i.e. the dangerously diffuse and lethargic chain of command in Bosnia). UNIFIL will profit greatly from their increased presence, particularly since their number will suffice to stifle the discussion about whether French General Alain Pellegrini should retain his command of the UNIFIL force; that might have become problematic if his government had only provided a few engineering companies. Pellegrini, an experienced and well-respected officer, will keep his command at least until February. After that - and maybe well before - what happens in Lebanon will be anybody...
...architecture, just some Etruscan ruins, a pretty coastal village called Castiglione della Pescaia where locals reel in coach tours as plentifully as fish, and the resistable charms of the city of Grosseto. But one traveler was seduced into stopping and putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand...