Word: franco
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...Montreal ,and we don't know the language. How are we going to explain to the auto mechanic that our car is piece of shit. Unfortunately, no gas station was open at 5:30 in the morning so we were unable to practice our Franco-English. C' est la vie. (It's the only French phrase I know.) In fact, the only thing that was open was a 24-hour peep show which only losers go to. And, losers that we are, we went in and spent some time there until we were sleepy. Because we didn't have enough...
Ulvang was at the press conference to explain his jarring assertion that the service of I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch in the Cabinet of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer...
...blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...
...seem to be in the minority. Although the public rejected the TV comeback attempt of 1970s favorite Chevy Chase--who opened his first show's "news" segment with the decidedly retro line "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"--there is an almost insatiable appetite for 1970s-esque stuff. The founders of the "1970s preservation Society" and other entrants to the booming "nostalgia industry" are striking it rich. You may not own a lava lamp yet, but you probably will soon...
Kieslowski, a Polish filmmaker now working in France, has an imposing European reputation from his 10-part series The Decalogue (still unreleased in the U.S.). His Franco-Polish The Double Life of Veronique earned its star, Irene Jacob, the best-actress award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. His new Blue won Binoche the best-actress prize this September in Venice. So Kieslowski knows two or three things about showcasing beautiful women. He gives them an identity crisis, locks them alone in a Paris apartment and puts their chic, bleak spirits handsomely on display...