Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not, Marcel Ophuls insists, a biography of the notorious "Butcher of Lyons," convicted by a French court in 1987 of crimes against humanity as chief of the Gestapo unit stationed in that city during World War II. The film is, Ophuls says, a study of people's responses -- the complicity, the indifference, the willed ignorance -- to the face of evil presented to them by Klaus Barbie...
POUSSIN: THE EARLY YEARS IN ROME, Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth. The first major exhibit in North America devoted to the 17th century master who was the father of classical French painting...
These passages are numerous. Glashow is less than disturbed by French racism as he recounts his absolution for an automobile accident for which he now claims total responsibility. Driving drunk on the wrong side of the road, Glashow collided with an Arab driver, who was arrested instead of Glashow after the latter showed the police some official French documents...
...using the lessons of history, thinking in time and concocting cogent recipes of theory and historical fact. Very noble aims. That's why the same techniques are similarly emphasized in upper level courses in comparative politics. Learning the lessons of history is as useful a tool when studying the French Revolution as it is in the international conflicts...
...Agha Hasan Abedi, a native of Pakistan, BCCI operates 400 branches in 73 countries. The bank is owned by just 51 shareholders, including members of the Saudi royal family. Among the BCCI officers arrested last week were top managers of the bank's Panamanian, Latin American and French divisions...