Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, the good news. Les Amis are unbelieveably hospitable. Compared with them, according to GM, "the Frenchman is the most constipated human being on earth." Forget many of the chauvinistic clichés of the past. (Chauvin, after all, was a Frenchman.) Par exemple, the book points out, "the notion that the Americans could produce anything good to eat or drink used to make us giggle." Faux. Actually, there are several restaurants in New York (run mostly by Frenchmen) that would rank with some of the best in Paris. American restaurants, the book says, "are infinitely more elaborate, elegant...
...good. People were dancing out there. And singing. And repenting. During the war, though, a whole new style of movie started skulking out of the Coast. The French labelled it film noir, but coining the phrase was about as close as Gallic sensibilities could ever get to it. No Frenchman could truly understand a city like L.A., and that, metaphorically at least, was what film noir was all about. The term was used to describe a slew of films, the likes of Double Indemnity or The Killers. which were stepchildren of earlier gangster movies but which now had a peculiarly...
Giscard lieutenants, who only the day before had talked smugly about remaining above the fray, could no longer contain themselves. Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet blasted Mitterrand for his lack of patriotism and the "rudeness of his expression." Fumed Prime Minister Raymond Barre: "As a Frenchman, I was revolted...
...their cigar ash, is on the runway of Rome introducing Valentino's spring collection. Brooke on TV implies in those naughty ads for Calvin Klein jeans ("Wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing") that she does not wear underpants. According to Casablancas, the Manhattan-born Spanish-Frenchman who had the impudence nearly four years ago to challenge the home-grown agencies by opening a New York edition of his Paris-based firm, Brooke embodies "the perfect synthesis of everything that will be successful in the '80s: a little bit of sex and a little bit of innocence...
Such theories are neither new nor revolutionary. The forefather of today's supply-siders was the 19th century Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Say, who enunciated one of the earliest-and most hotly disputed-laws of economics: supply creates its own demand. John F. Kennedy practiced a form of supply-side economics in the early 1960s with measures like the investment tax credit to stimulate business expansion. No less a Keynesian than John Maynard Keynes himself anticipated the supply-siders' stress on incentives to production by writing: "I believe you have first of all to do something to restore profits...