Word: francos
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...painted him in the act). His 1870 The Condamine Street Atelier portrayed his friends Manet, Monet, Maitre, Renoir and writer Emile Zola while his own tall, lanky figure was painted in by Manet. That same year, the 29-year-old Bazille volunteered and was killed in combat in the Franco-Prussian War. Frédéric Bazille (Oct. 1-Jan. 18) is the first retrospective of his brief career to appear in Paris since 1950. With such accomplished paintings as the big, crystalline Family Reunion and the sensuous, almost Orientalist, La Toilette this small show makes clear how much...
...Berlin Summit. With a new wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling the Germans aboard and isolating the French. But analysts in both countries say that may be beyond the reach of Bush's team. "The German political class wants nothing more than a reasonable partner in the U.S.A.," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the German-French Institute...
...Finland's electricity comes from nuclear power. The government has provisionally approved the building of a fifth nuclear reactor (FIN5), with the capacity to produce up to 1,600 MW, at a cost of $2.5 billion. But even if Finland needs more nukes, why Russian technology? After all, the Franco-German Framatome ANP and General Electric are also bidding for the contract. To make its case, ASE has adopted an American-style lobbying and public-relations campaign, a rarity in Finland. It has established a company called Oivavoima Oy (Excellent Power), with offices on Pohjoisesplanadi, an elegant tree-lined boulevard...
...This week, some 10,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries - many of them in "new Europe," that loose amalgam of young, hungry, former Soviet-bloc states planning to join the E.U., and those in the West who are uncomfortable with the Gaullist tilt of the Franco-German axis - will be fully mustered in Iraq under the command of Polish General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz to help the Yanks and Brits shoulder what looks like a long and hazardous occupation. Serving alongside 2,300 Polish soldiers will be 1,600 soldiers from Ukraine, 1,300 from Spain, 470 from Bulgaria, 300 from...
...crowd that Arnold has stayed with for a while are old bodybuilding friends, a faithful circle that includes Franco Columbu, the Sancho Panza of Schwarzenegger's early days, who says Arnold is running for Governor to give something back to the country that has been so good to him. "He wants to do a big, beneficial thing, more than a movie--like straightening out this problem in California." Schwarzenegger also keeps up with Joe Weider, the onetime head of the International Federation of BodyBuilders who brought the 21-year old Austrian to the U.S. in 1968 when Schwarzenegger was already...