Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston, and became engaged (briefly) to a girl from South Carolina who had a white Cadillac convertible and called him "honey chile." He retains a strong affection for America and is in fact an American junk-food addict. "When you're in the U.S. with Chirac," says Foreign Minister Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place, he has to stop the car, rush up to the counter and order a hamburger." (Chirac does have a more sophisticated side-he speaks Russian and is an expert on Chinese poetry and porcelain...
Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
...Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...
...Kathleen Adams, Melissa August, Edward Barnes, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Alain L. Sanders
...Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Sidney Urquhart