Word: fran
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From the moment François Mitterrand stepped off the Concorde in Washington last week, he was accorded a hero's welcome. A booming 21-gun salute and brassy rendition of La Marseillaise greeted the French President on the White House lawn. He was invited to address Congress, a conspicuous honor for a visiting head of state. At a sparkling state dinner, with Ronald Reagan as host, he was feted in the company of such luminaries as Actor James Stewart and Novelist William Styron. Throughout it all, the warm words flowed like champagne. Calling his country "a constant ally...
...black-and-white '50s. Until now, their image of the man and his work was that of a brand name without a product. "Hitchcock" might suggest a certain kind of movie-suspenseful, shocking, grimly humorous-but one that was known secondhand, through the imitations of Brian De Palma, François Truffaut, Stanley Donen, John Carpenter, the James Bond series and a hundred gory slasher movies (the deformed children of Psycho). Now young viewers can enjoy the original Hitchcocks, all of which play variations on a favorite theme: the need for a guilty person to be discovered...
...Though the Jewish writer Jean-François Steiner, author of the 1967 book Treblinka, shares this view, many Jews sharply dispute...
...four-nation Multi-National Force were told that their departure was probably imminent after the Soviet Union vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for their replacement by a U.N peace-keeping force. In an austere communiqué following the Soviet veto, the government of President François Mitterrand declared that "France cannot alone bear the responsibility of the international community in Lebanon...
...structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been put on the project, which is expected to take five years to complete. Mitterrand, an admirer of Pei's East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., personally selected the 66-year-old, Chinese-born architect for the job; and last...