Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role is not a new one: a Germany that is no longer fearful, penitent, and psychologically crushed by the outrages of WW II is cause for concern to neighbors and adversaries. Some are disturbed by the resurgence of German political and economic power and wonder if the bitter Gaullist maxim that "Les Allemands seront toujours les Allemands" will not be true again. At the same time, however, it is welcome to see, in a Western Europe staggered by political mismanagement, divided over the rise of the Left, and weakened by the international economic recession, West Germany represents a haven...
...often succeeded in cheering up the French in those grim years. On the other hand, Actress Danielle Darrieux, shown boarding a train to Germany in Let's Sing, acted in German films and entertained Nazi soldiers in army camps. Even more disturbing to French audiences were shots of Maxim's restaurant, which was jammed with German officers and French businessmen, and of high-living socialites of le tout Paris attending cocktail parties given by Otto Abetz, Germany's wartime Ambassador to France...
Seven floors above Rosenthal's office is a quiet little room that houses "The Museum of the Printed Word." Enshrined there are newspapers ranging from several printed on Guttenberg's press to The Times's front page proclaiming the first moonwalk. For a moment, the maxim "Today's newspaper will wrap tomorrow's fish" seems less believable...
...will find that he hardly knows anything about his past either. He will feel suspicious of his closest friends and relatives. He will suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and say: "I know, it was my fiancee who told them that I read Maxim Gorky's Mother...
...wished to go, to that Egypt. But in his mind the image of Cléo de Mérode, a courtesan who so enraptured Paris society in the '90s that even Proust is said to have murmured "Gloria in excelsis Cléo!" when she walked into Maxim's, fused with those of Cleopatra and the Sphinx. So what could be more natural than to make her a votive cosmetic box, filled with souvenirs of Egypt...