Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most sophisticated shopping areas, with a pricey mixture of antique shops, clothing boutiques and luxury delicatessens. Some of the best bread in the city comes from II Fornaio bakery. The neighborhood supermarket. Jurgensen's, stocks fresh beluga caviar and Maui onions. Says Alain Assemi, owner of a French and Italian women's clothing boutique: "Union Street is the Rodeo Drive of San Francisco...
...French Suite. When French President François Mitterrand visited San Francisco in March, he chose to stay in the $1,500-a-day presidential suite of the Hotel Meridien because it is owned by a French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...
...story Meridien, opened last October, offers such determinedly Gallic touches as hand-milled French soap, breakfast croissants and a bilingual staff. From his four-room suite on the top floor, Mondale will have a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay to the east. The master bedroom is equipped with remote controls for opening and closing the draperies and for raising and lowering a television housed in a lacquered cabinet. The choice of ablutions includes a Jacuzzi-equipped bathtub, redwood sauna and multijet shower, all within reach of one of the bathroom's two telephones. The Democratic front runner apparently...
...general system of equivalence for university diplomas to enable trained specialists to move more freely among the Community's technologically lagging industries. Mitterrand mentioned the possibility of a European space station and even a European flag, passport and anthem. All are part of a program that, in French Finance Minister Jacques Delors's words, "has awakened the sleeping beauty that was Europe...
DIED. Michel Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian, whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political control profoundly influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power...