Word: alain
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...country has been the subject of so many extreme and contradictory signals as Japan, in foreign films and in its own product. The Japanese have been seen as proud warriors and shy bureaucrats, courtesans and devoted daughters, a most cultured people and the most barbaric. Western directors like Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) and Steven Spielberg (who will achieve a Japanese trilogy if he ever adds the long-deferred Memoirs of a Geisha to 1941 and Empire of the Sun) have joined such local masters as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Nagisa Oshima in trying to define the bold, elusive...
...Socialist Party, selling voters - and leftist allies - on such market-minded reforms as increased privatization, tax reduction and remunerative innovations like stock options. Though a return to government is far off, Strauss-Kahn "may even have a larger impact as a defining force within his party," says political commentator Alain Duhamel. "Strauss-Kahn was popular as minister, but his real talent has always been making the left's policies more intelligent and realistic...
...Losers WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Busted! Pipes found in the Bard's home reveal traces of cocaine. Doobie, or not doobie? ALAIN DUCASSE We thought the tuna melt was fine. Michelin guide dethrones French gastronomic king ABDURRAHMAN WAHID Indonesian Prez goes on pilgrimage while Borneo burns. Too tragic for a quip Verbatim...
...possibly tainted beef-believed to be the main vector of human infection-by three French supermarket chains. Then came reports that Germany, Spain and Italy, previously untouched by the epidemic, had discovered their first bse cases. "I lost between 50% and 60% of my customers overnight," says Paris butcher Alain Lamarchand...
...brute magnetism. It doesn't even matter which side of the law he is nominally on: as an officer in Violent Cop and Fireworks (Hana-bi) or a yakuza in Boiling Point, Sonatine and Brother, he carries a gun and a grudge. Like the uninflected killer played by Alain Delon in Jean-Pierre Melville's classic 1967 crime film, aptly titled Le Samourai, Kitano walks slowly, stares blankly; he might be a patient whose life the surgeons have saved by removing his soul. Like Clint Eastwood in his early surly days (A Fistful of Dollars, Dirty Harry, Pale Rider), Kitano...