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...country is failing to find a new role in the post-cold war world and that within Europe it is being overshadowed by the rise of a unified and vibrant Germany. Should they assert themselves vigorously and strive to lead the new Europe or retreat into a kind of Gallic stockade and preoccupy themselves with domestic concerns? The regional elections pointed to a distressing trend toward the second option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Splintering Influence | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...time is half-past the Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be his victims. A housewife bent on suicide rigs up a dozen Rube Goldberg devices of destruction. Underground, an army of inept "Troglodists" (sort of Middle- Age Mutant Dingy Frogmen) plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 30, 1992 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...games begin with Gallic zest -- and some gridlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...firmness with which Mitterrand steered his nation after the gulf war's outbreak gave their old ally a taller stature. France is still a tough customer on many issues -- agricultural subsidies, for example, the big snag in the current troubled round of world-trade talks. Stubbornness is the Gallic style: a demonstrated readiness to scuttle agreements is Paris' way of showing that it means business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New France | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...Brit look, or variations on it, is everywhere, along with the softer, more soigne tailoring of the French and Italian variety. One recent Wallachs ad trumpeted the virtues of a Christian Dior suit (at $550), a store staple for years even though Wallachs' buyers managed to turn Dior's Gallic glitz into a kind of standard broker bland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonfire of The Business Suits | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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