Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jean-Marie Le Pen's right-wing National Front wins 12.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections with anti-immigrant rhetoric...
Perched in the carved wooden throne that serves as his office chair, he toyed with a flag bearing the Czars' double-headed imperial eagle and dismissed reports that he harbors totalitarian aspirations. Displayed on his office wall was a portrait of the French ultranationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. By the window sat a teddy bear. "I am no fascist," he snarled, bounding from his chair to stand before a large map demarcating the portions of Finland, Poland and Afghanistan that he hopes to annex. "I have not allowed myself to make a single extremist escapade in my life...
Examining Jean Genet, petty thief and major writer...
...Jean Genet could be hard on his public. "I don't have readers," he once lamented, "but thousands of voyeurs." He might have added that it was he who raised the blinds and staged the spectacle -- a rabbity-looking thief rhapsodizing about transvestites and jailyard toughs. Not even the revered felons of French literary tradition, the poetes maudits from Villon to Rimbaud, had been so devoted to the triumvirate of personal virtues -- thievery, homosexuality and betrayal -- in Genet's great novels. First the French, then the world, couldn't tear their eyes away...
...writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who ushered Genet's novels into print in 1946 in under-the-counter editions, Genet was a singing erection, a poet who cultivated his homosexuality in ways the fastidious Cocteau never permitted himself. Genet's work "disgusts me, repels me, astonishes me," Cocteau wrote. "It poses a thousand problems...