Word: argent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ballad of Narayama, is a harshly elemental lyric about Japanese mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades. Two survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about how money corrupts, and the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia, an agonizing stylistic exercise about a Soviet intellectual in Italy. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life won the Special Jury Prize. At the closing-night ceremony, Python Terry Jones thanked the jury members by name...
...from their traveler's checks than they were a year ago. Even though some hotels that cater to well-heeled visitors regularly raise their prices to keep pace with foreign currency changes, good values abound. In Paris, a four-course dinner at the three-star Tour d'Argent goes for about $54, expensive by most standards but still $17 cheaper than two years ago, thanks to a 74.8% appreciation in the dollar against the French franc. At ubiquitous Parisian cafes, steak and pommes frites cost only $4, and a glass of wine can be as little...