Word: french
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently Paris has also gained renown for something diametrically opposed to this aristocratic image--the resurgence of socialism in Western Europe. With the victory of Lionel Jospin in France's 1997 elections, the French socialists came back into power...
...attract painters, dreamers and tourists as it has for centuries. But in the new France that brought us Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite, these vestiges of the older aristocratic days are more than a little surprising among those who advocate "social justice" at all costs. Would the leaders of the French revolution be pleased to learn that, near the Place de la Concorde, where they beheaded Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI for their decadence and officially ended the absolute rule of the monarchy, there now stands one of the most expensive hotels in the world, the Hotel Crillon...
...more than 200 years after the French guillotine beheaded the king, France, like most of Europe, has socialized health care that purports to provide quality treatment for citizens of all means. And the government still controls much of the telecommunications, electricity and other basic industries...
...different socio-economic backgrounds in a system that has been one of the most elitist in the world. Historically both the government and the government-owned businesses were run by a small cadre of men who graduated from the elite Grandes Ecoles, survivors of the relentless winnowing that characterized French education since the days of Napoleon...
...that much 25, 30 years ago, when sexuality was a subject that attracted serious moviemakers and moviegoers. The X-rated Midnight Cowboy won the top Oscar for 1969; Columbia Pictures released the sexy French film Emmanuelle and made a bundle; Marlon Brando poured out his heart and his lust in Last Tango in Paris (back then the erotic accessory was butter, not hair gel, and its application was an adventure, not a joke). You had to be 18 to see these films, but so what? Then the kids took over the box office. Hollywood learned how to eroticize violence...