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Poetic language emerges out of the ruins of prose. --Jean-Paul Sartre, Art and Action...
...lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage boys try to make sense of rumored wonders: women, the Western world, adulthood. Their unlikely guide is the ultra-cool French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of whose films is playing in a town 20 miles away on a river called Amur (Russian for Cupid). Though the boys live in a backwater where spit freezes before it hits the ground, and an escaped prisoner is found sitting frozen in a tree, their real...
CONVICTED. JEAN-PAUL AKAYESU, an ex-mayor from central Rwanda; of genocide; by a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. It is the first such verdict by an international court. Former Rwandan Prime Minister JEAN KAMBANDA, who pleaded guilty to the crime, was sentenced to life in prison...
Elvis Presley was an only child, also Leonardo da Vinci, Nancy Reagan, Robin Williams, Brooke Shields, Joe Montana, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Chelsea Clinton, Hans Christian Andersen..." Environmentalist Bill McKibben provides this enigmatic list in Maybe One, the latest in a series of gloomy, worthy, admonitory volumes he began in 1989 with The End of Nature. The new book is an effort to persuade couples, maybe, to consider--the author is excruciatingly tactful--reducing the strain on the earth's resources by having only one child...
...walk around the Champs D'Elysee, I see the invasion of the GAP, American restaurants, and dubbed Matt Damon and Leo DiCaprio flicks. Americanization, with all of its money-hungry capitalists, cunning advertisers, flashy lights and technological miracles, has fully transformed the city of Robespierre, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre. This transformation is unfortunate. It is an even sadder reflection on our country that, internationally, America has come to represent shopping malls, MTV, Big Macs and E.R. However, many of the social and behavioral norms associated with consumerism have not crossed the ocean back to the old world. Perhaps...