Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized "the insanity of totalitarianism in the guise of the clerical spirit...
Possibly sensing that his company had grown too big to be run out of his hat, Revson in late 1974 recruited as his successor a man with a completely different personality: Michel Christian Bergerac. Tall, suave and mustached, he is a French-born Basque who looks and talks (in Gallic-flavored English) like the kind of smoothy who should be running a cosmetics empire. But he started out as an electric power salesman, trained as a manager in the ITT cauldron, and rose to head that conglomerate's European operations, a job that taught him about acquisitions, finance...
Born in the French resort town of Biarritz, the son of a chief of the local gas and electric company, Bergerac studied economics and political science at the Sorbonne and Cambridge. He came to the U.S. at 21, earned an M.B.A. from U.C.L.A., and for one six-month period worked as a ranch hand roping horses in Oregon. He joined Cannon Electric Co. of Los Angeles as a salesman, and in three years worked up to international vice president. Meanwhile, he became a U.S. citizen and married Norma Langstaff, a Los Angeles abstract painter who has had several art shows...
Revson knew the Bergerac name; Michel's older brother Jacques, a onetime movie actor and briefly the husband of Ginger Rogers, worked for Revlon (he heads its French operations). Michel and Revson had a meeting at the Palm
...strong, if off, collective sense of humor. And they had the Pong machine and the 13-ball Foosball game to keep us amused. Still, it came down to about fifty of us sitting around, sick of being inside, sick of sitting in a basement and eating hamburgers and frozen french fries. Californians don't take the inside too well. There were a lot of quarters plunked into the two machines until Joe "got tired of making' change and, ah hell, might as well make them free...