Word: moi
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...French boss is up to no good - plus an element missing in many such tomes: sex. The hero's success in learning to separate politesse from a French woman's true intentions is instructive, as are his graphic descriptions of the rewards. How much of the book is autobiographical? "Moi, je ne regrette rien," Piafs Clarke, who refuses to talk about his personal life (he is reported to have children in Paris schools). Not that there is much for him to regret these days. Bantam and other publishers are looking at his two previous unpublished novels, and Clarke...
...brash, swashbuckling style of fallen supermen like Messier--who referred to himself as a "master of the world" and published two autobiographies, one while he was CEO and a sequel after he was ousted--has been consigned to history, for now. "The extreme case of 'the company, c'est moi' is behind us," says Booz Allen's Newkirk. At engineering giant ABB, based in Zurich, Jurgen Dormann stunned senior managers by telling them in one of his first meetings after taking office in September 2002, "I don't like to work too hard or take decisions. You do that...
...yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled by Moi! Self-Portraits in the 20th Century at the Musée du Luxembourg (March 31-July 25), in which 150 artists and photographers take a good look at themselves in dozens of different ways: unsparing closeup (the aging Degas); in duplicate (Dubuffet, with bowler hat); in triplicate (Norman Rockwell, Jacque...
...pipe, some little cigars, and back to cigarettes. In the 80s, while at the Cannes Film Festival, I discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...
...dong (about $7) to let us continue. Mr. Truong is reflective. "Corruption is a problem in our country," he admits. Still, moving around is easier than it used to be. Mr. Truong remembers when even ordinary Vietnamese needed permission to leave their villages-before the 1986 doi moi reforms that slowly opened up the country. "Now we have a better life," he says...