Word: french
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that evening, when they moved on to visit troops at Ramstein air base, Albright donned a leather bomber jacket. But while Clinton spent hours mingling and talking, Albright went off to work her cell phone. She talked to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister about Russia's evolving position, then the French and British foreign ministers about the statement she hoped to get at the G-8 meeting, and finally a conference call of key NATO ministers for an update on Rugova's release...
Hollywood bad guys usually get their comeuppance; the end for geopolitical bad guys is seldom as satisfying. As the Kosovo war grinds down toward an outcome untenable at the multiplex, NATO faces some uncomfortable choices over the eventual fate of Slobodan Milosevic. According to French reports Thursday, Milosevic has signaled that he's prepared to accept the NATO-Russia peace deal, but only if he's guaranteed immunity from prosecution as a war criminal. "Milosevic imposed the same condition on the Bosnia peace agreement," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He has a lot of blood on his hands...
...tick of the big clocks in Paris and Berlin whether you were Childe Hassam doing Impressionist streetscapes 30 years after Monet or a New York abstractionist producing ideal geometries in the early 1940s. "We all steal," said Arshile Gorky to Ilya Bolotowsky. "You steal from Cahiers d'Art [a French art magazine of the '30s]; I steal from Cahiers d'Art. The only difference is I steal better than you, because I know French and you don't!" The very American twist on this story was that Gorky didn't actually know any more French than Bolotowsky...
...remembered that a year or so ago, when I'd had the occasion to share a few meals with some American wine distributors who were visiting individual producers in the south of France, I'd noticed that each distributor seemed to be almost precisely the size of a French family of four...
...Sade were cloned twice and the resulting twin sisters were reared in France by members of the Fugees, the women might sound something like the French singing team Les Nubians. Sisters Helene and Celia Faussart have a warm, engaging sound that blends smooth jazz, soft pop and warm R. and B. with a dash of danceable hip-hop. There are an emotional generosity and a spiritual depth on this album that come through on every track...