Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Americans cannot get along without French clothing, wine and perfume, even if the value of the dollar is falling. But do Americans need a French department store? A Denver-based developer, Realities Inc., thinks so. Hoping to capitalize on one of the great names in European retailing, Realities has opened the first U.S. franchise of Paris' 122-year-old Printemps department- store chain...
...glass-and-stone facade of the American Printemps, in an old commercial area of Denver, is a far cry from the 19th century belle epoque building that houses the Printemps on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. But the U.S. owners have tried to recreate a bit of French style: the Denver store features a bistro and a sweeping operatic staircase backlit by a skylight. The merchandise is more eclectic: such famous French names as Claude Montana and Hermes are well represented, but so are Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and other American labels...
...composed a full-length novel, La Disparition, without once using the letter e. He devised a 5,000-letter statement that read the same backward and forward. Its subject: palindromes. And four years before he died of cancer, Perec published La Vie Mode d'Emploi, a novel that French critics have increasingly hailed as a masterpiece...
...universally shared. And wordplay, no matter how winsome, does not travel well from one language to another. In any case, English-speaking readers can now examine Perec's most acclaimed book for themselves. At first glance, Life: A User's Manual looks every bit as good as the French have been saying it is for years...
...brought extra money to the Pennsylvania game last Saturday because I hadn't bought any game souvenirs in my four years. But it wasn't because I hadn't had any other kinds of souvenirs--the kind which come out of the French translation of "souvenir"--remembrance...