Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to receiving a B.A. in French literature from the College, Schwartz graduated from Harvard's Far Eastern Regional Studies program...
...their choice of school and would recommend a Canadian education to others. Peter Deitz, 20, a Hastings, N.Y., resident majoring in Canadian history at McGill, allows that he is "very grateful, very content with the choice that I made." In his first two years in Quebec, he improved his French enough to work last summer for an Internet company in Paris...
...their view, it is no accident that fairy tales with wicked stepparents, like "Cinderella," can be found in every culture. The French even have a proverb for this: "Quand la femme se remarie ayant enfants, elle leur fait un ennemi pour parent" (The mother of babes who elects to re-wed/Has taken their enemy into...
...humorous story of an Eastern European Jewish shtetl (village) and its fantastic escape from the Nazis on a fake deportation train they build themselves. Never mind that it was historically impossible for such an event to have occurred. There is no ultimate reality principle in cinema, and this French language film acknowledges that life is better portrayed when it is idealized...
...continually saves the day along the dangerous journey to freedom by coming up with more silly and crazy plans. He is simple, carefree and innocent, and this allows him to be, at times, the only one who is fully aware of what is at stake in their struggle. French actor Lionel Abelanski is blessed with an endearing face and he plays Shlomo in a heartbreakingly sincere manner. He is one of the movie's purest delights and illusions...