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...FRENCHMEN. "We have a tendency to place ourselves as absolute criteria in the center of the universe and see anyone else as a departure from the normal. But, what is a Frenchman? A being with an ingrained sense of discomfort, mocking individualism, contemptuous, revolting against any incorporation into the mass...
...Frenchmen heard these appalling sounds not on their government-owned radio and TV monopoly, RTF (for Radiodiffusion Television Française), but in broadcasts from an independent station headquartered in the tiny principality of Monaco...
...Frenchmen get their news straight enough from the country's press-which is not government-owned and not particularly cowed by France's punitive press-control laws. But they get nothing of the sort from RTF. which is a glib and obedient government parrot. So biased-and so boring-are RTF's newscasts that its reporter teams are frequently hissed when they are recognized on Paris streets...
...handsome contract with the Louis Bregeut Aeronautical Works-which Floirat owns; that Monaco, which has a 5% stockholding in Europe Number One, has been urged to sell it to France. How long Europe Number One can endure the governmental siege is uncertain. But while it does, 14 million Frenchmen presumably will go on listening...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour), which seems to make every pint-pot intellectual feel like an Alexander...