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...April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat, six party intellectuals took the unprecedented step of attacking the Politburo in Le Monde...
...place, spent more than $40,000 to refurbish it from reception room to flagstaff, which now flies the Maple Leaf and the blue and white Quebec flag, along with the Stars and Stripes. With an eye to fellow emigres from Quebec, Murphy has ordered a sign saying PARLONS FRANçAIS. Quand même, the Murphys insist they want to become Americans and "live the American...
...Fran Alexander Madison...
...Fran Lebowitz, author (Metropolitan Life): "Really, I'm against the idea that writers should be struggling and poor. I think there are other disciplines besides poverty...
...little bit of this sort of humor goes a long way, a lesson that the gifted Fran Lebowitz has yet to learn. Metropolitan Life (Button; $8.50) blitzes the reader with such lines as "Food gives real meaning to dining room furniture . . . Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money ... If God had meant for everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars . . . Sleep is death without the responsibility." It is a foppish wit that is very conscious of taste, class and sexual pre dilections, but Lebowitz herself remains...