Word: jeaned
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...addition, Europeans have a centuries-old proximity to, and affinity for, the Arab world that the U.S. not only does not share but too often fails to understand. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Arch-bishop of Paris, points out that the French have a "fascination and aversion" toward the Arabs. "It goes back even to Poitiers, which, as every French schoolboy learns, was where Charles Martel stopped the Arab conquest of Europe in 732." Lustiger could have added that Europeans also have a way of becoming mired in their own history to the point of paralysis...
...kind of moralizing earnestness that was common in French salon art a century ago. Idealizations of the peasant, reflecting an anxiety that folk culture was being annihilated by the gravitational field of the city, were the stock of dozens of painters like Jules Breton, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Jean François Millet. Homer's own America had its anxieties too--immense ones. Nothing in its cultural history is more striking than the virtual absence of any mention of the central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman...
...things we want to hear, you'll be out in no time. If you don't cooperate, you'll be in prison for 30 years.' I hope no one will believe anything Hasenfus says until he can speak freely." Hasenfus was permitted to meet briefly with his wife Sally Jean, who traveled to Nicaragua from Wisconsin. At week's end two coffins containing the bodies of Cooper and Sawyer were unceremoniously dumped outside the U.S. embassy by Nicaraguans just after an anti-American demonstration. Embassy staffers denounced the Sandinista action as "ghoulish." The bodies were later flown back...
...Palestine Liberation Organization alleged that Syria was behind new threats in France. Among those advocating attacks last week was the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, which demanded the release of several militants jailed in France. More chilling, the group's communiqué suggested that French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who is one of eight French citizens being held hostage in Lebanon, should be executed as a "Zionist spy" to protest a visit to Paris last week by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...dumps her unwanted infant into a pile of fish offal, amid the "fiendish stench" of the nearby Cimetière des Innocents in Paris. Unfortunately, the baby's screams attract the attention of the police. They arrest the mother and hand her progeny over to church authorities, who baptize him Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. The tyke's wet nurses keep quitting. He drinks too greedily, they complain, and there is something else truly spooky about him. Explains one woman: "He doesn't smell...