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Congratulations to Olympics Organizer Peter Ueberroth for his sound management ideas [Oct. 17]. It is too bad Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau did not have such creative talent when he was host to the 1976 Olympics. I, my children and even my grandchildren will be paying for those Games for years to come...
...party congress, former Research and Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of one of the party's left-wing factions, called for a more radical, reflationary and protectionist economic course. Chevènement, who was forced to resign from his cabinet post this year after opposing austerity, claimed the support of close to 20% of the delegates. The consensus of the congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership...
Noticing the popularity of blue jeans in Europe and the U.S., as well as the growing number of youthful so-called Jesus freaks, Vitale combined the two enthusiasms into a single product, and thus created Jesus Jeans. To advertise the new pants, he used billboards displaying curvaceous, jean-clad female bodies and slogans like-"Thou shall have no other jeans before me," and "He who loves me, follows me." The attention-grabbing campaign quickly spurred sales, despite protests from church leaders that the ads were blasphemous...
...caribou. Neither scenes are models of scientific investigation--let alone verisimilitude--but they serve admirable to frame Mowat's journey into awareness through the medium of Ballard's slightly surreal vision. If at times the meshing of beguiling photography with the Tangerine Dream-like score begins dangerously to suggest Jean-Jacques Beneix's slideshow of an imaginary Yukon trip, at least Ballard errs on the side of elegance...
...autobiography (written in collaboration with his longtime screenwriter, Jean-Claude Carrière) is thus in part the testament of an old man passing ironic judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally...