Word: michel
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...affair, conducted almost exclusively behind closed doors. But the competition to replace Frenchman Jacques de Larosiere, who announced his coming departure in September, has generated -- in financial circles at least -- all the excitement of a tight horse race. Last week a winner hit the wire: Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus, 53. When he takes over next month as chief of the IMF, which provides short-term emergency loans to troubled nations, Camdessus will become perhaps the second most powerful moneyman in the world, after Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker...
Jean-Philippe Lachenaud, director of architecture for the Ministry of the Environment, was put in charge of the plans. Michel Laclotte, the Louvre's head curator of painting -- and, as such, the key influence in the "Louvre system," which controls the distribution of government-owned works of art throughout France -- became head curator of Orsay as well. "I had to wear two hats," Laclotte recalls, "and sometimes it gave me a headache." For the Louvre is by nature a monopoly, with the gravitational pull of a black hole. So many of the canonical masterpieces of the 19th century -- Delacroix...
...calls for a housecleaning at the White House are coming from Republicans. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana and House GOP leader Bob Michel of Illinois have taken the lead in urging Reagan to replace White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan...
...area of agreement is that the first necessity is to get people into the workplace. Family stability would be vastly greater, says Harriet Michel, president of the New York Urban League, "if black men, women and teenagers could get jobs when they needed them." When asked what would alleviate the breakdown of poor families, Moynihan replies simply, "Jobs." President Reagan defends his policies by arguing that his economic approach has led to the creation of new jobs, which he has called the "greatest social program we have...
Whack! Bam! Snipe! Antoine (Michel Blanc) and Monique (Miou-Miou) bicker like dogs in hate. The beleaguered husband and wife are about to kill each other, in front of everybody at their favorite Paris dive, when a stranger named Bob (Gerard Depardieu) joins in the fray. Changes their lives too. This pansexual thief takes the couple on his heists and woos them both before vacating the premises. He takes Monique to bed but pines indefatigably for mousy Antoine. Unashamed by his voracious sexual appetite, Bob overwhelms the poor little guy. Who could resist such declarations of ardor? They become lovers...