Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matthew Eichner '87 described it as "best formal I've been to while at Harvard," while Steven Gross '87 said he was glad to see the classmates he had met during Freshman Week. "It was a lot like looking through the facebook, because you haven't seen them since French A and Expos," he said...
Rossignol, France's premier ski manufacturer, has traditionally been the undisputed king of the slopes. From Jean-Claude Killy to Erika Hess, European stars have slalomed to championships on Rossignol skis. Last season the French company sold 1.9 million pairs, giving it 25% of the $800 million world ski market...
Suddenly, though, Rossignol's reputation has taken a spill. French skiers, ! two-thirds of whom use skis supplied by Rossignol or its Dynastar subsidiary, have had a dismal season. It culminated earlier this month with their total failure at the world championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. While Swiss skiers claimed eight gold medals and even tiny Luxembourg carried off a gold, not one of the 30 prizes at stake was won by a French skier. The dejected French competitors blamed the bad showing on their skis and on poor preparation by the team's technical support staff, most of whom...
Rossignol's stock recovered somewhat last week, but prospects for the French ski team are still discouraging. "The only way for them now is up," says a Rossignol spokesman hopefully. In the world of downhill skiing, however, that is not the easiest direction to attain...
...beer (gronk, honk, sound of oboists performing underwater) is fizzed up and flavorless, the worst brew in the universe. Why this should be so is puzzling. Other nations do not find it impossible to brew serious beer. The Germans and Austrians are masters, of course. Scandinavians, Dutch and French are experts. Italians see no point in beer, but what they make is drinkable. Mexicans produce good summer-weight cerveza. Canadian beer includes such hairy, out-of-the-swamp- and-still-dripping specialties as Moosehead, fondly known as Moosebreath by truck drivers in the Northeast. Japanese export beer tends...