Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the Gaullist opposition, Français, Si Vous Saviez (Frenchmen, If You Knew) was finished within 18 months. But even then, the government-appointed censorship board waited for seven weeks before granting it a commercial license. In fact, the license came through only ten days before the beginning of the French elections-too late for the film to have much influence on the voting, but in time to enable the government to refute charges of film censorship...
...sleeping immune systems to combat cancer. The techniques of this approach vary widely. Some doctors still use Coley's bacterial-toxin formula; others inject vaccine made from killed mumps virus and diphtheria bacteria. Many, however, prefer a live-bacteria tuberculosis vaccine called BCG (for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, after the Frenchmen who developed...
...same reasons that they are no longer lured by the American example, young Europeans are turned off by the prospect of a united Europe. They see it as an economic abstraction, designed mainly to serve the needs of the multinationals. As it does to millions of ordinary Italians and Frenchmen, the Common Market so far means little more to millions of ordinary Britons than higher food prices and the mammoth trucks known as "Continental juggernauts" that shatter the peace of quiet country towns-a rude sample, they worry, of other horrors to come...
Madame Steinle will undoubtedly have her wish-and if anything is certain in Europe's uncertain '70s, her children and grandchildren will live and die as Frenchmen too. To Strasbourgiers, that sense of security is something new, and even a bit miraculous. "For centuries," says Mayor Pierre Pflimlin, who in 1958 served for 18 days as the next-to-last Premier of France's Fourth Republic, "we in the border areas have known nothing but fear and insecurity. Now that nightmare has ended. The Common Market and the concept of Europe have made a basic and fundamental...
...throughout Europe and trial marriages were out. All the strip clubs had been closed in 1977, and there were no more shows like Oh! Calcutta! Women's lib had also changed the whole male-female relationship. All over Europe now, women were the aggressors. Even Italians, Spaniards and Frenchmen, who had held out the longest, readily acknowledged the fact...