Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hypermarkets comes from France. A small-town haberdasher and a grocer, taking advantage of their country's lack of American-style supermarkets, teamed up in 1960 to start the first hypermarket at an intersection just outside Annecy, in the foothills of the Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than...
...which has 22 such stores, they have only now become a hot concept in the U.S. One reason is that America has so many competing discount stores and supermarkets that the Carrefour concept had trouble gaining acceptance. Analysts estimate that Bigg's, a Cincinnati hypermarket opened by Euromarche, a French firm, has lost at least $9 million since it was opened three years ago. But the large U.S. chains believe they can make the idea work by selling name-brand goods at paper-thin markups. K mart announced last September that it will form a joint venture with Bruno...
...power politics. It rekindles the sparks of adult sexuality on the American screen. And in its capacious reach, the picture means to embrace three decades of European films. For 2 hours 47 minutes, it dances from the skeptical eroticism of mid-'60s Czech films to the leaden sentimentality of French Director Claude Lelouch. At its best, it recalls the anguished intensity of vintage Bergman. At its worst, with its English-speaking actors sporting Middle European accents, it reminds one of De Duva, a parody of Bergman films in which Death (speaking in Borscht Belt Swedish) gets dumped...
...Lacroix, 37, is the new king of couture. A French newspaper, France Soir, considers him no less than a "messiah." The fashion industry last week honored him for the second time with its most prestigious prize, the Golden Thimble. Since he opened his own couture house a year ago, his ideas have become the most visible in the field, a rare combination of wit, frivolity and knowing thefts from both past designers and the great ages in clothing history. Lacroix is the man whose designs might sport a rude cabbage rose, perhaps on the derriere...
Only one of the 16 people named in the Miami indictment is in custody. David Rodrigo Ortiz Hermida, allegedly Escobar's pilot, was arrested last year on the Caribbean isle of Guadaloupe after being caught with a cocaine shipment, according to prosecutors. He is being held by French authorities...