Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends recalled the French enthusiast and Romance Languages Ph.D. candidate as someone who always had time to care and who liked to see other people enjoy themselves. Some of his friends spoke, some read poetry, some sang, and some played the piano and violin...
...former Agriculture Minister Michel Rocard, 55, a political moderate and longtime Mitterrand rival. The Rocardiens are urging the party to shed its Marxist ideological trappings and modernize its image along Social Democratic lines. They say it must reject the Communists and court centrist and independent voters. Said Rocard: "The French people do not want another version of the (Socialist-Communist) common program, warmed over for today's taste...
...vote next March. That would re-establish the Socialists, who currently hold 285 seats in the 491-seat National Assembly, as the country's largest single party and deny a majority to their major opponents, the neo-Gaullist Rally for the Republic and the right-of-center Union for French Democracy. But reaching that 30% threshold will be a daunting task. From a historic high of 37% in 1981, the Socialist share of the vote fell to 21% in the June 1984 European Parliament elections and rebounded only slightly, to 25%, in regional voting last March. Party strategists estimate that...
Miyake's clothes, declarations of independence for the body, do not look at all out of place on exhibit in museums. Yvonne Deslandres, curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, casts traditional French fashion jingoism aside and calls Miyake "the greatest creator of clothing of our time." His designs challenge so many traditional expectations and break so many rules that they need different sets of standards to be understood or even worn. "I know many people resist or reject my clothing, because it's not a package that's already formed, like European clothing," the designer will concede...
...radiant colors full of playful forms and unexpected but always amenable shapes. The new collection is also a solid demonstration of the amplitude of Miyake's gifts, of all the discipline, restlessness and romance of his free-ranging creative spirit. Challenge, whether in his native Japanese, his fluent French or his serviceable English, is a favorite word: he uses it as a prod, a goal, a signpost and an explanation. Fashion fits into his vocabulary only as a practicality. "The semantics aren't important," he explains. "But in Japanese, we have three words: yofuku, which means Western clothing; wafuku, which...