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DIED. LOUIS FERAUD, 79, French fashion designer who rocketed to fame in the 1950s when Brigitte Bardot began wearing his brightly colored sundresses; after battling Alzheimer's disease; in Paris...
Still, Yasser Arafat, according to a close aide, was "furious" with his wife for embarrassing Clinton. "He didn't appreciate having to defend her to American and European diplomats," says the aide. The Arafats are accustomed to playing a defensive game. Suha, 36, with her bottle-blond tresses, Louis Feraud suits and French fashion magazines, was not the wife most Palestinians had imagined for their austere leader, 70, whose dedication to their liberation is symbolized in his olive drabs, stubbly beard and standard explanation (since abandoned) that he remained a bachelor because he was married to a woman called Palestine...
...Feraud has the mentality of a yapping farm dog, and when his wound has healed he forces another duel. And another. There is peace between the two men only in time of war ("Duels between nations take absolute precedence," one of D'Hubert's brother officers says cynically). Feraud remains crazed with hatred, and D'Hubert, though he cannot remember the original cause of the quarrel and is quite willing to forget the feud, continues to dance to honor's tune and his adversary's whim...
...Though Feraud's mania never subsides, and though D'Hubert thinks him contemptible, the two are bound together in something that is almost comradeship. The mad intensity of their relationship burns away what in another film would be the excess of landscapes too beautifully framed and interiors too cunningly photographed. The Duellists uses the beauty of the French landscape to comment gently on the frenzy of the men bloodying themselves in its soft fields. In the end, after a resolution of sorts has been achieved between the two men, Feraud stands, back to the camera, looking...
...last bit of rancid emotion should have been drained away. But this is a Conrad tale, and obsession rules. The rigid set of Feraud's shoulders tells the absurd, almost admirable truth: he is just as mad as ever...