Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crippled by a golf injury so painful that he is unable to attend his-infamous dinner, Bronchant is stuck at home with a Pignon who insists on "helping" him. Unwittingly, Pignon manages to unravel almost every part of Bronchant's chic life, from his wife and mistress to his furnishings and fine wine. Yet the farce never becomes a simple enactment of poetic justice; no matter how much Veber paints Pignon as a really likeable, sweet guy who makes matchstick models of famous monuments such as the Eiffel Tower to numb his broken heart, he remains the idiot...
...revealed as well. Despite his snide comments and apparent dislike of Pignon, Bronchant still needs his "idiot" to help him out, whether by physically carrying him up the stairs or making phone calls. At one point, Bronchant reveals that the reason he only has expensive wines in his home is because he worked very hard his whole life so that he doesn't have to drink cheap wine. Therefore the audience sees through the upper-bourgeois crust that hides Bronchant's low upbringing just as Pignon's idiocy never obscures his human qualities...
...were somewhat limited because people had gone home for the summer," said Stacey L. Dworkin '01, a trumpet player and the band's tour manager. "People who were around pulled together and it worked...
Jerusalem cops had better be stocking up on Maalox, because the city?s historic Temple Mount is shaping up as a flashpoint of, well, biblical proportions. Three right-wing Jewish militants were arrested Thursday after distributing leaflets urging Jews to expel Muslims from the hill, which is also home to Islam?s third holiest site, the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Jewish extremists ? who want the Islamic sites razed in order to rebuild the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 in the belief that it will hasten the Messianic era ? were egged on by a handful of American...
EASING ELDERCARE President Clinton in January proposed a $1,000 annual tax break for most patients or their families who pay for long-term care at home or in institutions like nursing homes. Not to be outdone, Republicans in Congress last week pitched further tax relief, worth up to $2,750 a year, for those who tend to aged relatives at home or buy insurance for long-term care. Nursing homes can cost more than $50,000 a year. Republicans hope that by encouraging less expensive home care and the purchase of private insurance, they can cut government expenditures...