Word: gallic
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...breathtaking precision of the strings. Two days later in Philadelphia, Muti took an Apollonian view of Berlioz's sprawling "dramatic symphony," Romeo et Juliette, featuring Soprano Jessye Norman and Bass-Baritone Simon Estes. For all its splendor, however, the performance could have used more intensity and less Gallic detachment...
...race was born, and the good Beaujolais burghers rubbed their hands with Gallic glee as they exploited a miraculous new way of turning a feeble wine into a majestic profit...
...little outdated. Simon had a period of modest renown during the 1950s and early '60s. Along with Nathalie Sarraute, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Michel Butor, he became a chief exponent of the French nouveau roman, a form of fiction that rigorously questioned traditional narrative devices. Reality, so the Gallic logic went, is not easy to read. Simon has proved himself just as good and as exhausting as the form that he helped to develop...
...Jura Mountains. Here Lake Leman, Western Europe's largest, narrows into the foaming torrents of the Rhone River. Wandering tribesmen settled at the lake's edge as early as the Bronze Age. The Romans conquered the place in 120 B.C., and Julius Caesar came to fortify it for his Gallic Wars. In what is now the Place du Bourg-de-Four, where a stone fountain gently splashes through the seasons, the Roman road from Italy once crossed the road to southern France...
...French advertising executive, Jacques Seguela, describes the phenomenon of the new America with a certain dogmatic Gallic eloquence: "The country that originally invented the consumer society is now inventing the communications society. Why has this been possible in America and not elsewhere? Because the U.S. is the only country where youth is credible. Individuals plunged into their professional lives in their 20s and are winners at 25 or 30. In France and elsewhere in Europe, that is impossible. You cannot go to a banker and say, 'I have a project involving imagination or new technology,' and ask for money...