Word: frenchwoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that in 1948 he was asked by agents of the KGB to woo a fellow student, the daughter of a French naval attache. He complied without knowing their purpose or even the extent of his own motives. Years later, Sinyavsky put the intrigue to good use by enlisting the Frenchwoman to help smuggle his writings to the West...
Despite her name's presence in the title of this adaptation of an Isak Dinesen story, Babette Hersant (Stephane Audran) does not appear in the film until it is almost half over. Even then she is, as it were, in disguise. She is presented merely as a Frenchwoman rendered homeless and penniless by the Communard uprising of 1871 in Paris, seeking refuge in a remote village in Jutland on Denmark's northern coast. If there is something unusual in her bearing, its source -- an extraordinary talent -- is not hinted at. For 14 years she toils unpaid, uncomplaining, almost unspeaking...
...shop the trendy boutiques of Melrose with Molly Ringwald is to watch elegant saleswomen grovel. Having word get out that this young fashion plate buys from your shop is the rag-trade equivalent of hitting all six numbers in the California lottery. At Comme des Garcons, a tiny Frenchwoman behind the counter compliments Molly on her Paleolithic do and watches her try on a pair of suede lace-up granny shoes. $49, and out she strides, in her late-for-the-train gait, past two punked-out teens. "That was Molly Ringwald!" one insists. "No, it wasn't," her elder...
...being a psychosexual counselor," she says. Dr. Ruth went to Paris to make her film debut opposite Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver in a French farce, One Woman or Two. Westheimer plays a rich American who bankrolls Depardieu's research into the 2,000-yearold remains of the first Frenchwoman. When Depardieu shows up at the airport looking for Westheimer, he meets Weaver instead, and the pair fall madly in love. "It's very difficult to confuse Sigourney with Dr. Ruth," shrugs the French leading man. "But I manage to do it." There, there, Gerard; of all people, Dr. Ruth...
Roger Lantagne, a medic with the 101st Airborne, married a Frenchwoman when the war ended and retired nine years ago to Enghien-les-Bains outside Paris after more than three decades of military service in Korea, Viet Nam and Europe. Lantagne, a native of Lewiston, Me., remembers that he was tending German and American wounded in a village church not far from Utah Beach when the village was recaptured by the Germans. "A high-ranking German, accompanied by troops with automatic weapons, suddenly burst into the church. They looked at us, at the bloodstained pews and the German wounded, then...