Word: hiver
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...buying a more comfortable pair of walking shoes and giving up the morning jogs, I began to enjoy the taste of a walking culture. I couldn’t remember why I would frequently take the shuttle from Mather (though upon further reflection, the answer is l’hiver). I have set aside a few afternoons when I didn’t have class to walk until I got lost enough to have to pull out my Paris map. It is getting a lot harder for me to get lost, which I consider a good omen. Not all those...
...valiant resistance fighter, but also the Vichy regime bureaucrat. He was lauded as a friend of the Jewish people, but never denounced his long friendship with Vichy police chief Réné Bousquet, who helped round up Jews for deportation at the notorious Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris...
...apogee of excess, however, was a $3 million extravaganza staged in Paris by Thierry Mugler, who took over the Cirque d'Hiver to celebrate his 20th year in the business. A standing-room-only crowd of 1,700 watched as nearly 100 models and dancers cavorted on a multilevel stage. He had the finest flowering of supermodeldom, plus drop-ins by former Hitchcock star (The Birds) Tippi Hedren-one of whose gowns was decorated with feathers-and heiress Patty Hearst. Mugler is about the only person left who presents corsets and bustiers, but at least he made them sexy...
...Coeur En Hiver" is an indefatigably French movie, filled with minute conversation, coolly beautiful women, pensive silences and an impassioned polemic on the death of high art. There is also always a bottle or two of mineral water lying about, so much so that you wonder if somebody somewhere isn't getting paid. The film relies in part on the appealing possibilities of several settings: the workshop of an esteemed instrument-making partnership, the country home of an elderly couple, and several Parisian cafes. The restrained, somber-faced Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) is the behind-the-scenes brains of the business...
...adifficult task. Stephane is given to uttering suchwinners as "I like watching you talk," "All booksare about love," and "Music is dreams." Of course,he does this in French, and everyone doeseverything else in French, but that is somehow notenough to make the Franco-talkiness of "Un Coeuren Hiver"-- or its silences--as meaningful as theycould...