Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BUTTERFLY Politics makes the strangest of bedfellows in this operatically showy and entrancingly acted Broadway drama, based on the real-life romance between a transvestite Chinese opera performer (B.D. Wong) and a French diplomat (originated by John Lithgow) who believes his love is a real woman...
...REVOIR LES ENFANTS Tragedy awaits, irony abounds in this memoir of friendship and betrayal in a boarding school during World War II. Without italicizing a single emotion, French director Louis Malle has created the year's strongest indictment of the totalitarian mind and the conformist soul...
...BIGGEST BOOK FOR THE BUCK Weighing in at 7 lbs. and priced at $50, the new American edition of the French food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique, edited by Jenifer Harvey Lang (Crown), comes in at only 45 cents per oz., less than the price of fine veal or salmon. Rewritten and modernized in France, then translated in England and its measurements and ingredients Americanized, this essentially French work expands sections on China, Japan and the U.S. Too bad that the text and illustrations are so lackluster...
...rescuers, a nursing mother, quickly put the child to her breast. It seemed likely that these would be the last of the estimated 7,000 survivors who have been pulled from the wreckage. "With every day the moans are decreasing," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. By Friday the French, British, West German and Italian teams had given up the search and returned home and the official American relief team was packing away its equipment. At the beginning of this week, the Soviet army, concerned about infection from the rotting corpses, planned to send in demolition teams to start razing...
AIRBUS. The 18-year-old European aerospace consortium still loses money on every plane it sells, but its British, French, West German and Spanish co- owners have been willing to subsidize costs in order to develop a robust European aircraft industry. Airbus is eclipsing Douglas as the world's second largest jetmaker. One reason: the manufacturer outfits its jet cockpits with advanced flight-control systems that are not yet available on most U.S.-made , airliners. By constantly monitoring flight conditions, the Airbus onboard computers help cut maintenance and fuel costs...