Word: french
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...some French colonists, Indochina was an idyll of sun-dappled verandas, silent servants and long glasses of Pernod in the afternoon. For others, like the family of novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras, it was an exhausting ordeal. Their story, as told in Duras' semi-autobiographical novel Un Barrage Contre le Pacifique (1950), is the subject of Cambodian director Rithy Panh's most recent work, The Sea Wall...
...Paris Different Strokes for Different Folks According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day as do Americans, and they get an hour more of sleep per night than do most South Koreans. The group's report used government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries to examine various social indicators--from education spending and fertility rates to leisure activities and "life satisfaction...
...French have 30 days of government-mandated paid leave per year. That compares with 20 in the U.K., 10 in Japan and zero...
...speaks to the divisions Marilyn French chronicled that her death, on May 2 at 79, left women of certain vintages bereft but seemed to go largely unnoticed by their male contemporaries. THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE: that was the pledge on the dust jacket of French's 1977 first novel, The Women's Room. It was decried by some critics as militant, man-hating propaganda, but its themes of female solidarity and empowerment didn't seem hugely radical to my blithe circle of undergraduate friends. French would later define feminism as "the belief that women matter as much...
...narrative mirrored aspects of French's life. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1929, she, like Mira, divorced and pursued an academic career. French's daughter was sexually assaulted; there is a rape in the novel. "All men are rapists and that's all they are"--the outburst by one of her characters became conflated with French's nuanced views...