Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MERCEDES. Shortly after the tragedy, there was a flurry of articles in the French press, quoting anonymous Ritz chauffeurs, claiming that the Mercedes S-280 had recently suffered a serious accident and had to be totally rebuilt. The accident story is false, says Jean-Francois Musa, 38, manager of the Etoile Limousine company, which leased the car to the Ritz. But he told TIME it is true that the car was stolen in front of the posh Taillevent restaurant on April 20 and was found in a Paris suburb...
...strongest statement is on China's brutal, 46-year occupation of Tibet. But just as both open with the soulful moan of Tibetan horns overlapped by the eerie, two-toned chanting of monks, the spiritual underlay of both is Tibet's ornate, pacifistic Buddhist belief. Says Seven Years director Jean-Jacques Annaud of his film: "Buddhism is everywhere." And he is right. Pitt's hair shines with its usual otherworldly luster, yet it is upstaged by the inner glow of his Tibetan co-stars. "I have to stay here," the young Dalai Lama says when offered a chance to escape...
...latest epic, "the happier he is. The wind's blowing at 90 m.p.h., there's dust in your eyes, bombs going off, and he's shouting in this wild French accent, 'We must shoot. We must shoot now!' He's like Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now." Sounds as though Jean-Jacques Annaud is just the fellow to film Harrer's life...
...director Jean-Jacques Annaud does deprive the audience of emotional stimulation of any kind, whether from cinematography or character development, until Harrer reaches Tibet. In one tense mountain-climbing scene in the Himalayas (or "Himilias," as Pitt refers to them), we see no panorama and remarkably little scenery in frame. Annaud keeps only the climbers in shot, and instead of majestic mountainscapes, only the snow and gray, gravely rock for a backdrop...
Here was a remarkable woman who, in her life with the poor, lived by a completely different set of rules. Your article said Mother Teresa's order accepted donations from "some unsavory individuals" such as Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier. I believe Mother Teresa accepted them because of the genuine good that would result from helping the poor. Human judgments must bow to divine judgment, and Mother Teresa more than anyone else understood the need to adopt that view. Whatever faults she might have had pale in comparison to the very true criticism Mother Teresa leveled...