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...Originally choreographed by Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli, and set to Adolphe Adam’s moving score, the ballet tells the story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. In Act I, she falls in love with a man disguised as a fellow peasant, who is actually the noble Prince Albrecht. When she learns that he is engaged to another, she goes mad and dies of a broken heart...
...Europe of the 1920s, that generational dissent was mostly expressed either in the arts (Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, Aldous Huxley) or in outright decadence (at the haunts of London's good-time toffs, say, or at just about any club in Berlin). But caught up in a renewed spiral to war, youths, many of them jobless, were soon being courted by political groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked...
...seriously is considering continuing the disastrous seduction of centrists," warned Jean-Luc Mélanchon, a member of the Socialist Party's hard-left flank. "It's clear that to avoid the right sweeping again, the Socialist Party will have to refocus and regroup, and bond with the wider left to win as many seats in parliament as possible," agree Socialist official Henri Weber. "That will be overseen by members of the party's leadership...
...first round of voting, the French chose mainstream candidates whose parties could actually enact legislation in the Assemblée nationale; fringe right and left candidates garnered especially low percentages—10 candidates managed merely a combined 24 percent. Tellingly, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right candidate of the Front National who made it to the second round in 2002, received the smallest share of votes he has received in any presidential election since...
Some experts warn that as the industry heats up, its traditions of artistry and creativity could be eroded. "We're in danger of losing our identity, becoming more concerned with Wall Street than our consumers," says Jean-Pierre Subrenat, chairman of the World Perfumery Congress and former head of the American Society of Perfumers. He is worried that industry specialists will lose their jobs and that financial demands will squelch creative freedom...