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Even the French, self-appointed arbiters of the human romantic condition, are baffled. In Paris this spring, the provocative and enthralling Les Hommes et Les Femmes by Francoise Giroud and Bernard-Henri Levy was regarded as mandatory reading for anyone who sought to gain insight into the contemporary state of affairs between the sexes...
...from human placental tissue is expensive, a claim challenged by a growing number of Gaucher's patients. "This is the worst illustration of corporate greed I've seen," says Abbey Meyers, executive director of the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Responding to Meyers, Genzyme's chairman of the board, Henri Termeer, says, "It's not a matter of greed. It's a high-cost product. There is no flexibility on price here...
...course, in adapting Sade's work for film, director Henri Xhonneux faces an obvious dilemma: how can one possibly depict the contents of a book like 120 Days of Sodom without the result being banned in every country on the globe? Xhonneux's solution is to hide his actors under elaborate animatronic masks not unlike those used in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal." No human faces appear in the film. And though Miss Piggy wasn't above making a few amorous overtures to Kermit, she surely never dreamed of carrying on as the pigs, dogs and cows of "Marquis...
Capital punishment provoked heavy internal debate. The final text says that a punishment should be "proportional to the gravity of the crime, without excluding in extreme cases the death penalty." Henri Tincq of Le Monde found that "incomprehensible" in light of opposition to state execution by the hierarchies of France, Canada...
Sometimes an exhibition will define the work of a major artist for a whole generation. So with the Museum of Modern Art's Picasso retrospective in 1980. Now New York City's MOMA has done it again, with "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective" (through Jan. 12), devoting most of its space to an enormous survey of Matisse's paintings, drawings, collages and sculpture curated by art historian John Elderfield...