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...lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends to be convulsive and born of conflict: one violent leap backward followed by two surreptitious steps forward. It's Houdini, not Thatcher. "If you only think of reform in terms of the Big Night, you'll never get anywhere," says Jean-François Copé, the government minister officially charged with reform of the state. In its own way, the incremental approach can bear fruit. Over the past decade, governments of both left and right have privatized or partially privatized most of the major French companies that were state-owned. Each...
...country had seen since the upheavals of May 1968. But after nearly four decades of neglect, a major offensive is under way to transform the banlieues, the blighted suburban ghettos that ring many French cities. Leading the drive is the French Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing, Jean-Louis Borloo. "When you have all of society's difficulties, failings and hardships so concentrated in the same places, you need an audacious, comprehensive plan to address them all," says Borloo, who began devising and implementing his multipronged strategy for the suburbs over three years before the first cars were torched...
...theater near you: more of the freakin' same! Summer means blockbusters, and that usually means sequels, prequels or remakes. Gone are the days when movies guaranteed the unforeseen: famous actors, yes, but in new roles; familiar genres, sure, but with different stories. Today the demand that Diaghilev made of Jean Cocteau-"Astonish me!"-has become "Remind me." Moviemakers and movie watchers, both groups in a historically cautious mind-set, want more of the same: tiny twists on proven franchises, like the pleasures of a living-room drama or sitcom. In this surprise-resistant summer, that's what you're getting...
...Russian play imported to Japan, with its dark humor and dour humanity intact--indeed, italicized? That's what Akira Kurosawa managed in 1957 with his faithful film of Maxim Gorky's claustrophobic epic. The Criterion edition offers a bonus: Jean Renoir's '36 version, with Jean Gabin in the role of the charismatic thief played in the Kurosawa film by Toshiro Mifune. It's a chance to see two movie masters stamp their genius on a superb drama...
...regular basis—cutting 20 lines of cocaine in 45 minutes, bagging Pete Doherty, and touting her child in a Prada handbag. But most importantly, I look to her as inspiration for one of the hardest things that a woman can do in these troubled times: wear skinny jeans. Skinny jeans are probably the most ponderous and troublesome item in the modern woman’s closet. In theory, they seem chic, wearable and utterly surmountable. In actuality, they make one’s thighs look like they are hotbeds of elephantiasis. For the uninitiated, skinny jeans are pants...