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...steak." "Where it's really hurting is the high end, particularly whole birds," says Eric Cachan, head of the marketing group Label Rouge, whose birds are raised free-range. "People are strangely more willing to buy nuggets and prepackaged chicken parts." Europe's largest poultry producer, Brittany-based Doux, last week announced reduced hours for about 700 of its 4,500 employees in France due to plunging sales. "There's just been too much noise about all this," grumbles Lepeule. "People are mixing up eating cooked chicken, which is entirely safe, with a highly hypothetical risk of human infection...
...director Hector Babenco ended his Carandiru with the slaughter of innocents in a São Paulo jail. Austrian Michael Haneke depicted the moral chaos attending an unspecified disaster in his testy The Time of the Wolf. Even Denys Arcand's genial The Barbarian Invasions, a French-Canadian billet-doux to a dear, dying scoundrel, featured a jarring clip of a hijacked plane crashing into the World Trade Center. And the two main Palme d'Or contenders showed how the world could end in America: with a bang. Dogville - like Von Trier's best-known films, Breaking the Waves...
...Washington's false teeth. (No, not wood but porcelain). Step into his military field tent. (Pretty comfy.) Read two of his billets-doux to his beloved Martha. (He's no Robert James Waller.) The objects are all featured in a charming exhibition of artifacts that have never before left Washington's Mount Vernon residence and that go a long way toward humanizing the dour and frosty image of our Founding Father. The show, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's death, will make its way around the country for all of 1999. What the collection also reveals is that...
...mistress, and if he had he would not have abdicated. He wanted a wife and the support of one woman for the rest of his life." To prove it, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson has announced her intention to publish a packet of several dozen love letters. The billets-doux, penned by the couple before their marriage, were originally to have been kept secret until after the duchess's death...
Laura Nyro: Nested (Columbia). The record that asks the question: "Can we mend/ transcend/ the broken dishes of our love?" In pressed wallflower ballads and rhythm and blues slicked up for the cotillion, this garland of lovelorn billets-doux shows no sign of Nyro's lyrical gift. Most of the tunes have to do with being wronged, often romantically, sometimes legally: "Autumn's child is catchin' hell," she sings, "for having been too naive to tell/ property rights from chapel bells." These are the best lines on the record. They are promptly diluted, then wasted, like every...