Word: ets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people, used as tourist attractions and given free board and lodging in return for affording the rest of us some entertainment. You may remember how the old kings -- like Henry V -- used to spy on their subjects; now it's the subjects who spy on their rulers. Dieu et mon droit...
Even the French, self-appointed arbiters of the human romantic condition, are baffled. In Paris this spring, the provocative and enthralling Les Hommes et Les Femmes by Francoise Giroud and Bernard-Henri Levy was regarded as mandatory reading for anyone who sought to gain insight into the contemporary state of affairs between the sexes...
Unlike its sterile American counterpart You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen, which also seeks to identify the different languages men and women speak, Les Hommes et Les Femmes regards the chasm between men and women as being ultimately unbridgeable. They also chide American feminists for going too far in attempting to eradicate the difference between men and women...
...films by workshop filmmakers, a series of seminars and dinner at Adams House, which was suitably adorned with miniature French flags. On one occasion, several students at Adams House mistook the jeune Val*rie Stroh for a foreign exchange student. Stroh screened her most recent film, "Un homme et deux femmes" (1992) at the Film Archive on Friday night. After midnight each night, workshop participants and filmmakers retired to John Harvard's Brew House for conversation and libation...
...head writer- producer. They and NBC spent weeks failing to agree on a host. Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey and dozens of other comedians, all of them more famous and experienced than O'Brien, were considered and either turned down the job (Carvey) or were rejected (Miller et...