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...birds in the plants. The Intern scanned the stack of papers at his feet and thought about doing the crossword puzzle. Eugene T. Maleska wanted him to guess what one-sixth of a drachma was in Roman numerals, but the Intern had little desire to. The Intern ordered another croissant from a waitress who told him to cut the crappy insincere panderings when he asked if she was having a nice morning. The Intern's companion looked up from a movie review by Stephen Schiff that he'd been reading for the last hour and a half. Schiff had come...
Frenchmen in the mass, alas, have succumbed to American fast food. McDonald's has hamburger dispensaries all over Paris, and Burger King has opened a shop on the Champs-Elysées. But the French have launched a spirited counterattack. Their ammunition is the croissant, the flaky, crescent-shaped roll that is as dear to French palates as scones to the Scots or Mom's apple pie to Americans. Gourmands are lining up for McCroissants at American-patterned restaurants rapides from sleazy St. Denis to the Boulevard St. Germain...
Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
...tell the audience. "We promised you nothing more than a collection of Jacques Brel songs, and here they are." There's a feebly executed but well-meaning attempt to create coffee-house atmosphere--the audience trades its ticket stubs during intermission for a cup of coffee and a croissant--but the floodlit cavernous Leverett dining hall offers little in the way of bohemian squalor or continental chic...
This winter the government put Groenewold and Croissant on trial for their defense tactics. Strobele may also face prosecution, along with a dozen other radical lawyers, on various charges. Croissant's trial, in the Stuttgart court where the Baader gang leaders were convicted last spring, is likely to be less restrained than Groenewold's. Croissant is more given to outbursts than his colleague, and his lawyers delayed the trial soon after it began by refusing to unzip their trousers so that guards could inspect their underwear for weapons. The Federal Constitutional Court ruled early this month that...