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...burned-out campground. At one point, as many as 30 fires started within a single half-hour. Some authorities called it terrorism, but others said the fires had been set just for the hell of it. "What's really fueling these fires is the heritage of pastoralism," says Michel Thinon, a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Ecology and Paleoecology in Marseilles. He argues that millennia of human activity have favored the growth of pine forests, which are prone to fires, over the hardwoods that originally grew in the region. Now with more people than ever along the Med, municipal...
Walking across Boulevard St. Michel in Paris last week, on the night before Bastille Day, I bumped into an old friend--an American who has lived in the city for 25 years--who told me he was taking up the tango. When I asked him why, he suggested I take a stroll along the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite Ile St. Louis, and so of course...
Walking across Boulevard St. Michel in Paris last week, on the night before Bastille Day, I bumped into an old friend - an American who has lived in the city for 25 years - who told me he was taking up the tango. When I asked him why, he suggested I take a stroll along the Left Bank of the Seine, opposite Ile St. Louis, and so of course...
Houellebecq has a gift for sleepy invective; he has contempt for both freedom and authority. But he's like a bad date--brimming with rank charm but few useful judgments. The great nihilist doesn't even know what a closet Victorian he is. Michel sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western encounter with the Third World that will be calculating and unglamorous but, all in all, gentle. You might say "gently empty." The empty part is a good bet. Somebody remind the author that the gentleness is not to be counted on. --By Richard Lacayo
...city-state's National Library in 1973. He converted to Buddhism that year, and his spiritual epiphany made him give up painting for four years, when he felt that enlightenment was more fulfilling than art. He picked up the brush again only when the then French embassy cultural attach? Michel Deverge threatened to end their friendship if he didn't. In 1978, Deverge helped Tan organize a successful exhibition of his works at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti, and Tan has never looked back. Since then, his success has translated into financial security as his larger pieces, such...