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MONSIEUR HIRE. In rank solitude, a strange man (Michel Blanc) watches a pretty woman (Sandrine Bonnaire), and someone has murder in mind. From the Georges Simenon novel, French filmmaker Patrice Leconte spins a handsome web of obsession, betrayal and death. Blanc is spookily splendid as the pathetic voyeur...
...latest sign of Soviet chic: Moscow unveiled an ad campaign last week to lure U.S. business travelers onto Aeroflot, the national airline. Created by Miami's Kelley Swofford Inc., the ads tempt Americans with "perestroika perks" ranging from complimentary nights in a Moscow hotel to a free Mont Blanc pen "to sign your deal with the Russians...
...women were accorded little status precisely because they never altered dishes. Top honors went to the male chefs, who had undergone long classical training either as apprentices or in professional schools, and who were celebrated for their creativity and inventiveness with new dishes. A case in point: La Mere Blanc in Vonnas, France, was long a famous cuisine de femme restaurant, but it earned Michelin's three-star rating only after Georges Blanc took over from his mother and began to dream up nouvelle haute cuisine...
...written surveys usually include a few ringers (example: "Do you always tell the truth?") to determine whether a job seeker is being candid. No single answer brands a person as a liar or thief, but those who administer the test watch for ominous patterns. Observes Arthur Le Blanc, a California psychologist who helped screen new employees hired for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles: "If you score in a certain range, you're more likely to be dishonest...
...Robert Maxwell is a whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell...