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Destiny offers a hero, Edouard, who has more vowels in his name than seem strictly necessary, and a heroine, Helene, who suffers from a superfluity of accent marks in hers. A lot of ink is wasted just getting these characters on the page. Given its initial investment, Bantam might have urged Beauman to save money by calling her romantic leads Ed and Helen. Anyhow, Edouard is impossibly rich and handsome; Helene is impossibly beautiful; together they are . . . a word comes to mind but then vanishes in the general miasma of implausibilities and sex, which is regularly rapturous and accompanied...
Bokassa denied any wrongdoing as the new trial got under way in the capital city of Bangui. "I am not a cannibal," he said. After shouting matches with the ex-Emperor, Prosecutor Gabriel Mbodou asked for more time to prepare arguments. Central African Judge Edouard Frank suspended the trial until...
Polls have shown that a strong majority of the French support cohabitation, and last week's confrontation probably does not mean that Mitterrand and Chirac will totally go their separate ways. As Finance Minister Edouard Balladur recently remarked, "In a western movie, the first one to draw his gun usually wins. In cohabitation, it is the opposite: the first one to draw is dead." Apparently, Mitterrand and Chirac still want to avoid that eventuality...
...help him engineer this dramatic transformation, Chirac named his longtime friend Edouard Balladur to be the Minister of Economy, Finance and Privatization. The most powerful Finance Minister in decades, Balladur, once a top aide to the late President Georges Pompidou, has been described by the French press as Chirac's alter...
...work is easily acquired, but is it obligatory? After reading what has been written about the Katz retrospective that opened last month at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, one would think so. The reviews and catalog essays thus far have favorably compared him with Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Frederic Remington, Caspar David Friedrich, Cole Porter and Fred Astaire. "Katz's astonishing achievement," writes Curator Richard Marshall in the catalog, "is to have reconciled abstraction and realism in post-World War II America...