Word: french
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...ended not in a bunker below the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, with no outsiders watching, but in a public area made for mass entertainment: a Paris movie theater. And that the Jews, Hitler's special victims, might have had a crucial hand in his defeat - indeed, that a French Jewess could have ignited her own holocaust of the Führer and his top aides with the words: "My name is Shoshanna Dreyfus. And this is the face of Jewish vengeance...
...parallel story lines that converge late in the film, German Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), a kind of supersleuth "Jew hunter" with a chatty, almost courtly demeanor, discovers and kills most of a Jewish family hiding in the cellar of a French farm. One girl, Shoshanna, escapes to Paris, where she runs a movie theater. She meets a young soldier, Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl of Good Bye Lenin!) who has become a battlefield hero and starred in his own military biopic, which is to receive its world premiere at Shoshanna's theater with top Nazis in attendance...
...literary criticism, a memoir and further novels, but her debut made the biggest impact. "There's probably a huge need for an updated Women's Room, for all those 20-something girls who say they want to be feminists but no longer have the words," says writer Stella Duffy. French's greatest gift was to help women articulate their world...
Niagara's Fallen. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the historic siege of Niagara during the French-Indian War. Old Fort Niagara is planning a large-scale commemoration of the battle from July 3 to 5, with a living history encampment, fireworks, a naval forces demonstration, and more than 2,300 re-enactors suiting up to portray British, French and American Indian soldiers in battles and a nighttime artillery bombardment. For kids there are 18th-century children's games, woodland skills workshops, soldier's drills and other activities...
Ancient Waters. Vermont's Lake Champlain is noting its quadcentennial. It's been 400 years since French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who charted the St. Lawrence River and founded Quebec City, hit Champlain's shores. There will be tours of the shipwrecks at the bottom of the lake, along with fairs and arts festivals around the lake through the rest of the year...