Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone who watches the late show knows that the antique French spoke with Oxford accents. Here, though, the aristocrats speak breadbasket American, while the servants talk with an English or Irish lilt -- a subtle joke on the imperialism of American culture. If there is a pitfall in this strategy, it is that American actors are defter at explosions than at epigrams. They are not trained, as the English are, to coil themselves in hauteur. So at times Malkovich plays the evil dandy too diligently; on his brow you can almost see the fop sweat. Then gradually he learns to trust...
...experienced medics look upon volunteer medicine as a career. Salaries are minimal: doctors in the field are paid between $700 and $800 a month, nurses somewhat less. But most of those who go abroad feel they are more than compensated by a sense of venturesome achievement. Stephane Michon, a French nurse, contracted malaria during a tour in Thailand, but she readily said yes when M.S.F. asked her to go to Sudan to work with refugees...
...development of highly mobile medical teams has shortened the international response time when disaster strikes. Within 72 hours after a catastrophic earthquake hit Soviet Armenia early last month, the French government and volunteer organizations dispatched the first of nearly 700 trained personnel, including doctors, firemen and experts in excavation techniques, to assist the victims. The effort was eventually joined by scores of countries around the world...
...volunteers themselves acknowledge, what drives them to undertake such missions of mercy -- and others far more perilous -- is not something easily explained or understood. "I know it is not possible to save everybody in the world," says Dr. Jean-Louis Menciere, a French anesthesiologist working in Sri Lanka, "but to do something about it is better than doing nothing." As more and more people become committed to the idea that, as Bernard Kouchner puts it, "mankind's suffering belongs to all men," the day may not be far off when there will be a substantial pool of medical personnel...
...Kurds that prompted President Reagan to call for the Paris conference. The initiative was quickly seconded by President Francois Mitterrand of France, one of the countries that had unwittingly supplied Iraq with equipment that helps in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The results of that exchange, understates a senior French diplomat, "gave one pause...