Word: bon
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...Michel Bon, chairman of France Telecom, is chatting by cell phone about 3G, a wireless technology on which he has wagered his career and his business. Suddenly, his voice starts to fade and become unclear. Then he disconnects completely. "I'm sorry," Bon says in his French-inflected English when he rings back a minute later. "My mobile, despite it is an Orange, I can say is not always perfect." France Telecom, of course, owns the lion's share of Orange...
...that the four men share in the Harvard MBTA stop is the only scene which seems to speak directly to the Harvard elite. Unfortunately, the powerful image and sentiment conveyed by this initial scene is not supported throughout the piece. Scenes occuring in the Hong Kong and Au Bon Pain simply use these places as backdrops from which the story is told rather than integrating them into the show itself. A stronger connection between the lives and the six characters portrayed here and the negligence of the Harvard community might have reinforced the proposed goal of the opera?...
Indeed, there is a fair amount of dissatisfaction among students with the University cuisine, to the point that numerous undergraduates have all but began swiping their IDs at Au Bon Pain come lunchtime. But I have a humble suggestion...
...This year's skits included "Chocolat Tiger, Hidden Bon-Bon" with the octogenarian "Chocolat" producer David Brown hamming it as Brown Young Fat; a revised "Chocolat" with director Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields" and MTV's "Undressed") as an outlandish Satan (wearing toy-store $3 devil horns made out of crimson satin) seducing Marisa Tomei and Christina Applegate. James Woods showed his appreciation for the genre by dragging it up as "Erin Chocovitch," displaying what he conceded to me were the spindliest legs in the business. His beautiful young date seemed shell-shocked. One surmised that she'd perhaps seen...
...melody king," says Spears of the man who wrote her biggest hits, including '... Baby, One More Time'. Last year alone, the 30-year-old Swede wrote or co-wrote four Euro No. 1s: Spears' 'Oops! ... I Did It Again' and 'Lucky'; the Backstreet Boys' 'Shape of My Heart' and Bon Jovi's 'It's My Life'. In each of the past two years, according to ASCAP - the American composers' society that keeps track of such things - Martin's songs were performed and broadcast more often than those of any other writer in the world. Says Simon Cowell, an artist...