Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Happy Hacker was not happy, but he brought it on himself. All the Hacker's papers are written on word-processors, literary Cuisinarts which would just as soon make mashed potatoes as they would make julienne french fries. Word processors are to the '80s what drugs were to the '60s--artificial stimulants that can often do more harm than good...
...French Presidents like to leave monuments behind them, preferably in Paris, as a proof of their passage. But no President de la Republique since World War II showed a more recklessly phara- onic commitment to changing the face of Paris than Pompidou. By a curious irony, the political consequences of this urge are what saved the Gare d'Orsay. Pompidou had ordered the razing and redevelopment of the vast central food market known as Les Halles -- Zola's "belly of Paris." The market, which had formed a bolus of stalled, honking traffic, was shifted to Rungis, near Orly Airport...
...then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came in, and Mitterrand let it be known that the 19th century must begin in 1848, the year of populist revolutions and the collapse of monarchies, in which Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto and the grandeur of French bourgeois culture began to move toward its apogee. Courbet, not Delacroix, would thus be the emblematic figure. As for the end of the 19th century, there was never any doubt about that: it was 1914, the beginning of World...
...woman, but it would be designed by one: Gae Aulenti. In the U.S., where no woman architect has ever had such a commission and only one major museum (the Philadelphia Museum of Art) has a woman director, this would have been seen as a major feminist victory. The French press hardly commented on it: a real meritocracy takes sexual equality for granted...
...time last week's demonstrations recalled the heady days of May 1968, when hundreds of thousands of radicalized French students took to the streets to protest a wide range of university and government policies. But the new generation of student demonstrators had more modest goals and more orderly manners. Their aim: to defeat an educational-reform bill that would tighten admissions standards and raise tuition fees...