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...speech included a pitch for Clinton's"domestic G.I. Bill" proposal for student loans.Clinton said the New Covenant creates "an Americain which the doors of college are thrown open onceagain to the sons and daughters of stenographersand steelworkers. We'll say, everybody can borrowthe money to go to college. But you must do yourpart. You must pay it back from your paychecks, orbetter yet, by going back home and serving yourcommunities...
...Saint Laurent skateboarding a la Kelly through Paris' seedier neighborhoods? Picture crusty Karl Lagerfeld nude from the waist up, posing for Vanity Fair, with red buttons over his nipples and 16 satin bows on his pigtails? Such antics have charmed the powerful French fashion press. "Le mignon petit noir Americain," enthused one Paris newspaper -- although in America being called a cute little black would seem more like an insult...
...World. Baum now runs a promising, quasi-postmodern creation called Aurora, where eclectic new French-American cooking prevails. Among the better menu choices are the roasted pigeon with sweet garlic, lime-broiled guinea fowl and a pungent lemon hazelnut torte. Enthusiastic over what he calls le reve americain (the American dream), Pangaud says, "I love the open-mindedness of this country. You can try much more than in Europe with food and with your life. Besides, there are too many expensive restaurants in Paris for the number of customers...
Though Tango ultimately resolves its most superficial drama--who gets an apartment in Paris--the essence of Brando's character, his thoughts, remain as elusive as the credits roll as when he first mumbles, "Je suis Americain...
...Thomson imagines fuller lives for 85 characters. Rick Blaine, for example, was born in Omaha in 1900. Before Casablanca and the Cafe Americain, he played football at the University of Nebraska, organized farm workers in California, fought against fascism in Spain and played the black market in Paris. There he met Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a language teacher and daughter of a bankrupt Swedish count, who will survive the war to subtitle Ingmar Bergman films, model for Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane...