Word: henrys
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...after getting nowhere for four years, U.S. and European negotiators have tentatively agreed on a plan to cut tariffs an average of 44% across the board. Such a reduction would help swing the talks toward ways of lowering trade barriers rather than raising new ones. But Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet warns that a steel OMA might stop progress in the talks, and a U.S. Treasury official adds, "If we erect another trade barrier, the whole future of free trade as we know it is in jeopardy." If the Geneva talks fail, it is easy to foresee a truly vicious...
...special aura clings to the late works of old men who can sum up a lifetime's deposit of knowledge in a final burst of invention. One thinks of Rembrandt's late self-portraits, of Titian at 90 or Bernini at 75; or, in our century, of Henri Matisse, who died in 1954 at the age of 85. The last two decades of his life were increasingly spent on making works in paper. Ensconced in the south of France, first at Nice and later in the town of Vence, the aged sultan of the Mediterranean had his assistants...
...group's most publicized-and most pessimistic-member is Bernard-Henri Lévy, 28, a long-tressed editor at the Paris publishing house of Grasset who coined the term New Philosophers. In his hot-selling polemic, Barbarism with a Human Face, Lévy attacks the promises of Marxism as empty. "Revolution is a myth," he says, pointing to the Soviet Union; instead of "withering away," as Marx predicted, the state has grown into a monstrous "reactionary machine." Lévy blames the persistence of Marxist ideas in France on the thinkers of the French Enlightenment, who paved...
...Year of the Leg. Designers can hardly do too much to glamorize the gam and take the limb out of limbo. Dawn Mello, fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman, pronounces: "If you want to do something new to your wardrobe, you accessorize the leg." Adds Sunny Clark, a buyer for Henri Bendel: "This year there are a jillion different looks for the leg." The re-emergence of the leg results partly from the new, bigger, fuller skirts and dresses that require attention be paid to the underpinnings. Says Fashion Editor Elsa Klensch of Harper's Bazaar: "No doubt...
Sorcerer is a puzzling picture. It is adapted from the same Georges Arnaud thriller on which Henri-Georges Clouzot based his well-regarded 1953 film, The Wages of Fear (that's the one about trucking nitroglycerin over the mountains). The new movie is handsomely shot and crisply edited. Why, then, does one rather distantly respect it instead of just plain liking it? It is an odd, disappointing feeling to take away from a summertime movie...