Word: francophilia
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...plan, he suggests, costs only about $12. And in France, the government will pay not only for health costs but for nannies. They'll even cook for you, and do your laundry. If Sicko doesn't win over the audience at tonight's black-tie world premiere, Moore's francophilia should do the trick. I'd take odds on a 15-min. standing ovation...
Part of the special attraction coffee holds in an academic community stems from the rampant francophilia of American intellectuals; and francophiles are to coffee-houses as pedophiles are to elementary schools. The coffee house offers the satisfaction of the francophiles' basic urges--to prattle pretentiously, indulge in snobbery, and, of course, sip du cafe...
Today, at 62, Motherwell is an American master (one of the very few around), but that is a recent reputation. Through the '40s and '50s in New York, when he was the youngest of the original abstract expressionist group, his conscious Francophilia set him rather apart from his colleagues. It was often taken as a denial of American newness. as a manifesto of eclecticism. Other artists dissimulated their debts to French painting or let critics bury them. Not Motherwell. Thus he was much abused as a mock European, all taste and private income-a Dick Diver, not attuned...
...brought out all his mother's Francophilia. At one point, she commanded him to go to Berlin and assassinate Hitler. He prepared for the trip but she called it off. When he failed in his first effort to get a commission at flying school, he couldn't bear to tell her. Hadn't she already bragged about her officer son at every vegetable stall in Nice? So he told her that he had seduced the commanding officer's wife. She not only believed him; she was proud...
Albert Guerard has served up an omelette of Francophilia--and as a critical handbook on the limitations of his adopted style, his newest novel has a certain merit...
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