Word: marceau
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...circus acts: jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, high-wire walkers... and clowns. Kooza's writer-director, David Shiner, has decades of intercontinental renown as a clown-mime; and his show throws a long spotlight on three of the breed. Nice change: they're all North Americans, and they talk - no Marcel Marceau winsomeness here. Surprise: they're fast, raucous and pretty funny...
...TIME's photo tribute to Marcel Marceau...
Some mischievous souls in France would say that the difference between our two countries is that nine out of 10 French know who Marceau was, while only one in 10 Americans has heard of Mailer. And others, more mischievous still, would assert that Mailer was better known in Europe than in the U.S. Indeed, Woody Allen, William Klein, Philip Roth, Paul Auster and so many other American creative spirits are bigger draws in this country, with its supposedly moribund culture, than they are in the U.S. No doubt, you will say, this is because our French artists...
...Americans, French culture is something at once detested and desired. If an algebraic formula could summarize its quintessence, it would look something like this: De Gaulle + Sartre + the baguette + Sophie Marceau's breasts = French culture. Whereas we know very well French culture is infinitely richer. That France is lacking artists of Proust's stature is undeniable. That French cinema is weaker than at the time when the nouvelle vague was giving absolute lessons in filmmaking to the rest of world cinema is obvious. But it is rather simple to show that the conception that we have of art has also...
...American attack on French culture. The controversy of the past weeks is purely manufactured, the handiwork of three people: the clever journalist who wrote the article, the shrewd editor who put it on the cover, and the graphic artist who brilliantly associated the widely lamented death of Marcel Marceau with, if I may draw on modern French thought, the empty signifier "French culture." John Brenkman, PROFESSOR, BARUCH COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, IN LE MONDE...