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...Europe's largest economies. But this can't-lose company did just that: €9 billion in debt and unexpectedly low tunnel traffic have whittled the stock price to as low as 32?. "The company has cash but it all goes to banks," says retired engineer Guy Ducreux, a 14-year Eurotunnel shareholder who supports the corporate coup. "The new board is a financial dream team." It had better be, if it's going to do what its predecessor could not: reduce Eurotunnel's crushing debt and its crippling costs, boost revenues and send its long-grounded stock price soaring...
...SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY. A gentle old painter (Louis Ducreux) tries one summer Sunday to reconcile family responsibilities with a renewed passion for his art. In this hugely affecting miniature, Director Bertrand Tavernier illuminates the twilight of a man's life with the colors of compassion...
...innocent eye, an intelligent heart: these are the gifts that nature bestows on her artists. As a painter of the second stature, Monsieur Ladmiral (Louis Ducreux) possesses each gift in decorous sufficiency. His eye captures moments with piercing clarity; his heart helps him appreciate their evanescence. For old Monsieur is going to die soon. Now each day is unique-even this summer Sunday at his country home about 1912, when his children and grandchildren will come to visit, and memories will flip by like snapshots from a lost family album...
Every sign seemed to point toward success, but Director Ducreux had apparently forgotten that Marseille audiences are a strange breed. Fiercely proud of their opera house, they resent outside interference; they doubt any operatic judgment but their own. A Marseille fisherman or barber may buy a third-balcony seat, show up for his favorite aria and leave immediately, either exalted or enraged. Director Ducreux might have anticipated trouble because of his new, untraditional production, his largely imported cast, or the presence of a socialite audience flown in for the occasion by chartered plane from Paris...
Critics stoutly defended the new Carmen, praising Martell's performance and calling Resnik "the best Carmen ever seen." Last week it was apparent from the SRO signs outside the house that Director Ducreux had a hit on his hands. As for the riot, noted Ducreux tolerantly, "It was a cabal against me, a vegetable rich cabal. The hecklers were only looking for a raison d'être. They have-modified Descartes' statement to make it "I boo, therefore I exist...