Word: alaine
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...quaffs at cafes. "People used to drink wine with their meals as a matter of course," Claude Vilain, of France's Committee for Health Education, says. "Now it's something for weekends and guests." Perhaps, but whiskey drinking is on the rise, as are sales in higher-priced vintages. Alain Maurel of Alexis Lichine & Cie, a Bordeaux wine firm, says, "The French are more aware of quality. There has been so much specialist wine coverage in the press. Wine is a star now." When asked if Moet-Hennessy, famed for its champagnes and cognacs, would produce soft drinks, a spokesman...
...were treated to a five-course meal featuring sweetbreads and | truffles, lobster, frogs' legs and lamb prepared by some of the top chefs of France in honor of Food Critic and Chef Pierre Franey, 64. Proving that too many cooks can spoil the guests, Gastronomic Masters Paul Bocuse, 59, Alain Chapel, 47, Gaston Leniotre, 64, Jacques Maximin, 36, and Roger Verge, 53, raised a deliciously rich total of $250,000. Says Bocuse: "We all put our hearts into this meal." And hang the cholesterol...
...Delhi carefully refrained from naming foreign governments that might have received classified information. But the French, who have landed Indian defense and industrial contracts worth more than $2 billion in the past few ( years, were linked to the operation. The French deputy military attache, Colonel Alain Bolley, hastily left New Delhi after the Indian government asked for his recall. Bolley was alleged to have ties to the CIA. In Paris, French Foreign Ministry officials refused to comment on the case...
...unfortunately, is not hereditary." Nevertheless, Sophie Renoir, 20, a great-granddaughter of French Impressionist Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, is determined to express herself. Her chosen medium is film acting (well, her great-uncle is Film Maker Jean Renoir), and her credits include The Children Are Watching, with French Heartthrob Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great-granddad's newly found terra-cotta bas-relief...
...point of view and command of visual style entitled them to the respect given novelists and painters. In 1958, at 26, he directed The 400 Blows, brought the new wave of film makers to its crest and became a budding auteur. With fellow New Wavers Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Truffaut yanked film into the modernist age. No longer would the screen serve merely as a window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything, in any and all fashions. Time could be stretched or collapsed, as in Jules et Jim; the narrative could...