Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their women from wild animals." As for the French, who didn't invent love but certainly know how to market it, they negotiate their affairs with a roue's smile and a fatalist's shrug. C'est l'amour...
...Claude Lelouch synthesized every foreigner's view of French love with A Man and a Woman, the Paris-to-Deauville erotic express in which the plangent hearts of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimee beat to an inane, unforgettable score. The picture was a worldwide hit, won a couple of Oscars and provided upscale young couples with an excuse to drive fast and twirl rapturously on the beach. Now Lelouch has reunited his stars for A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later. Aimee, whose features have calcified chicly, is a movie producer desperate to make a musical version...
Perhaps the French are better at family affairs. Trintignant's wife Nadine makes a decent domestic comedy-weepie called Next Summer; Trintignant appears in the film, as do their beyond-gorgeous daughter Marie and Nadine's brother Christian Marquand. They all provide support for Philippe Noiret, as the aging philanderer at the film's heart. While Noiret's exquisite wife (Claudia Cardinale) is giving birth to their sixth child, he luxuriates in the ardor of his latest bimbette. What his wife sees as playing around, he sees as just playing -- and how natural for this overgrown bear of a little...
...borders, not from inside someone else's." The dilemma of the moderate Shi'ites is stark: Israel will not trust them, and radicals in their ranks will reject any sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued statements calling the fighting a "regrettable incident." Nonetheless, at the funeral of the dead Amal militiamen, hundreds of young Shi'ites chanted an ominous refrain: "Death to the French...
...noon Tuesday, six French-made F-1 Mirages streaked out of the west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...