Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind Arcadia, a popular East Side boutique-restaurant celebrated for its new American cooking. Even more frightening to those accustomed to "21's" innocuous but soothing nursery dishes was the news that Rosenzweig, who would mastermind the kitchen, had chosen as her lieutenant Alain Sailhac, one of the best French chefs in the country, who had distinguished himself at Le Cirque. What was right for Arcadia and fancy French restaurants would not be right for "21," doubters said, fearing nothing so much as an invasion of foodies and yuppies. Yet faced with an aging clientele, the new team clearly...
...LAWS of national sovereignty are themselves based on the fundamental principle of self-determination. The same principle that underlay Nigerian claims to independence decades earlier could have been invoked to legitimate outside intervention on the Ibo's behalf. Indeed, the French government of Charles de Gaulle, before initiating covert military assistance to the rebels, declared: "The bloodshed and suffering of the Biafran people for more than a year shows their will to affirm themselves as a people...
Cries and shouts erupted in the courtroom. The judge called for order, but spectators and lawyers for the civil plaintiffs loudly protested the move by Barbie, who is accused of committing atrocities against French Jews and Resistance fighters while he was head of the Gestapo in Lyons between 1942 and 1944. "You should remain and look into the eyes of the people you tortured!" cried a victim from the gallery. "But you refuse. You are a coward." Shouted a lawyer representing some plaintiffs: "Klaus Barbie is making a mockery of justice!" Said another: "I represent 6 million victims who cannot...
...Justice. As rooftop sharpshooters stood at the ready, he was driven in a heavily guarded motorcade back to his quarters at St. Joseph Prison, a short distance from the site of his former Gestapo offices. In recent days Barbie had reportedly been weighing whether to exert his right under French law to stay away from the trial, which he denigrated as a "lynching campaign led by the French media." The tactic is not unprecedented. Last February, Lebanese Terrorist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, accused of complicity in two assassinations in Paris, caused a commotion by walking out of his trial. In Barbie...
Imagine chowing down cheesecake, feasting on French fries and pigging out on potato chips with little worry about calories. This fat-filled fantasy is still just an overeater's dream, but it moved closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the Food and Drug Administration in Washington. Its carefully guarded cargo: 30,000 pages of documents detailing tests of a new cholesterol- and calorie- free fat substitute that P&G calls olestra. The shipment included a petition asking the FDA to consider approving the substance's use in deep- fried foods...