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...servants - who are paid 53% more than they would be for doing the same jobs on the mainland - protested plans to end their privileged status. That insensitivity has contributed to sporadic outbreaks of violence among this Creole community. "The younger generation doesn't really have any hope," says Jean-Michel Grosset, a high-school principal and resident of the town of L'Entre-Deux (pop. 5,000). "They live off benefit payments and anesthetize themselves with alcohol and marijuana. It's a breeding ground for despair...
...people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel Bouquet and devouring the classics. "I couldn't go to school," he says, "so like all self-taught people, I immersed myself in the works of two or three great writers - Flaubert, Hugo, Molière - and developed myself from there...
...career in cycling propelled him from the anonymity of local races to the glitter of European and World Championship events as a member of the French national team. The rider, who asks to be identified only as Michel, says his fondest memories are of the "incomparable euphoria of strength and power I'd get finding myself at the head of a tired and flagging pack, knowing I was about to pull away and ride to victory." But like a growing number of athletes, Michel attained such elation the wrong way. He eventually realized that performance-enhancing substances had ensnared...
...that doping is somehow different from drug abuse; that it involves only euphoria-free, high-tech products like muscle-building steroids and blood oxidizing agents administered by attentive medical experts. "Sports fans protect the heroic image of athletes by using the term doping rather than taking drugs in sports," Michel points out. In reality, the drugs of choice for athletes today are amphetamines, cocaine, heroin and huge doses of caffeine-substances experts say often escape detection through a combination of masking agents, passage of time and connivance by officials. A popular injectable cocktail of those substances-known...
...Lippard. Selfless, sober, rational, public spirited--what, one is frivolously tempted to wonder, is such a paragon doing in the Whitney, an institution more noted in the '90s for staging tributes to delinquent cult figures like the late Robert Mapplethorpe and the equally late and even more overpraised Jean-Michel Basquiat? Not even the most obsessed Christian Fundamentalist could find much to burn in LeWitt, except a few tufts of pubic hair in some of the early serial closeups of nudes, done in homage to the sequential-motion studies of the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, and about as erotic...