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...made no bones about hating the country. His life and work amount to a definition of urbanity. Paris is unthinkable without Manet; Manet unimaginable without Paris. Both were joined again last spring in a centenary exhibition at the Grand Palais. The retrospective was curated by two art historians, Françoise Cachin, of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and Charles Moffett, until recently curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan in New York City. Last week "Manet, 1832-1883" arrived at the Met: 95 paintings, 45 drawings, and prints. It has been shorn...
...fewer claims about its potential as a simple solution for unemployment. Says Finance Minister Jacques Delors: "Work sharing should not be considered the principal instrument in the struggle against unemployment but rather an important tool." Concurs Michel Sailly, a spokesman for the pro-Socialist Confédération Française D&3233;mocratique du Travail, France's second largest union: "We realize that continuing on our path to the 35-hour week is not the only answer to unemployment, but it is still an important part of the solution...
...role. In France, where Barbie, 69, awaits trial in a Lyon jail, the official reaction was brusque. "Although frank, the U.S. report leads one to deplore the practices that allowed the Nazi criminal to avoid justice for a long time," said Max Gallo, a spokesman for President François Mitterrand...
French President François Mitterrand's decision also provoked a test of wills on two fronts far from Central Africa. In Paris, Mitterrand's Communist partners and even some members of his Socialist Party criticized the extensive deployment of French troops into Africa as a throwback to the "neocolonialist" policies of Mitterrand's predecessors. Members of the center-right opposition complained that the President was doing too little, too late. U.S. officials, meanwhile, took umbrage when Mitterrand charged in a newspaper interview that the U.S. had sent its AW ACS surveillance aircraft to the region without...
...treatment just winds down haphazardly and stops. Worse, Rossner cannot seem to decide what kind of book she is writing. At moments she appears to strive for the heartfelt tone of Judith Guest in Ordinary People; a few sentences later she lurches into smug social satire reminiscent of Fran Lebowitz's Metropolitan Life...