Word: frenchman
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...tall, ruddy-cheeked West German and the pale, intense Frenchman stood outside the monastery church at Birnau, overlooking Lake Constance, near the West German-Swiss border. A Cistercian monk uttered words of welcome. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl lifted his arms to the skies, clear after a daylong rain, and smiled: "Thank you, Prior, for we have been praying all day for the weather to improve." The quip brought a laugh from Kohl's companion, French President Francois Mitterrand...
Although it's fronted by a Frenchman, the Stranglers used to thrash harder and scream louder than almost any other band. But Jean-Jacques Burnel, the vocal power behind the band, anticipated the swing of the gustatory pendulum on their album, IV, alienating some of their hardcore spikes-n-nails support. Aural Sculpture, the Strangler's latest, completes their metamorphosis from outraged punk outcasts to ingratiating pop insiders...
...back in 1941, when his young wife began her first book. Some 40 years, 20 volumes and two husbands later, the evidence is in. Mary McCarthy, 72, has her own wise and distinctive voice, but the cool, analytical approach to art, sex and politics inescapably suggests the 19th century Frenchman...
Shooting around Rockport, Texas, Malle must have realized that he too was an alien intruder--a rich Frenchman with a glamorous wife (Candice Bergen) pleading the case for a Vietnamese underdog. But this foreigner was the right person to tell this abrasive story, and to capture it in warm colors and cold blood...
Interracial, intercultural sex is given for Sarah, who is bent on defying the respectable expectations of her family. But even in Paris, when she lives with a Frenchman, Henri, and his two friends, Sarah is reminded of her roots in an ugly scene. Henri calls her "notre Negresse pasteurisee" and describes her background as a symbolic rape of an Irishwoman by a big, Black buck. In his insults, Sarah decides, Henri has summarized the heritage she must inevitably face by returning to America...