Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French-Canadian Animation. Boston Public Library, Friday...
...narrator, a retired French-Canadian astronaut named John, relates the details of an undercover investigation into the mysterious deaths of eleven tourists visiting a health spa in Naples. As with most writers of detective stories, Lem never lays all his cards on the table; the reader only gradually learns that the victims were all middle-aged foreigners, balding and of athletic build. (Is it by chance too that the picture of Lem on the book's back cover matches this description?) In addition, the men were wealthy, single, and had been receiving treatments for rheumatism at the Vittorini mineral baths...
...Trudeau's home province of Quebec, the government of Premier Rene Levesque is determined to end the minority status of French-speaking Quebeckers in predominantly English-speaking Canada by achieving independence for the province. As a first step, the Levesque government is preparing to call a plebiscite as early as next fall, asking for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined formula of political sovereignty for Quebec and an economic association with the rest of Canada. A few years ago, Trudeau declared that "separatism is dead." Now he is trying to rouse attention to the threat of separatism...
...planes. Indeed, since last year, it has sold almost as many wide-bodies as Boeing and more than McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. These two companies have run out of steam because neither has launched a new model for the short-to medium-haul market. Says the consortium's French president, Bernard Lathière: "Three years ago, there were three major companies in the [jumbo] market-Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed. Today there are two-Boeing and Airbus...
This conquest of the "planar dimension" has not, up till now, been properly explained by a museum show. Rowell has done the job with tonic intelligence, bringing together 114 sculptures done between 1912 and 1932 by 39 artists: French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Italian and American. She has traced sculpture's passage from closed mass to open form with a precision of focus and a variety of little-known works that no earlier effort has matched. This may be the most important show of modernist sculpture in the past ten years...