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Later, as a novelist, he helped fuel the age of French romanticism; as a polemicist he daringly attacked Napoleon; as a politician he served as Louis XVIII's foreign minister. En route, he out-Byroned Byron; few of Europe's great beauties-or, possibly, his sister-could resist the arrogant, magnetic aristocrat...
...Bujold is a wonderful actress--unfailingly charming--but here she battles four forces which succeed in overwhelming her: the hospital administrators, her skeptical fellow-surgeon lover (Michael Douglas), Crichton's tedious script, and her own French accent, which, despite her valiant attempts to obscure it, makes more comebacks than Napoleon. She does give Coma its interesting moments, however; when she climbs a ladder, the camera looks up her dress with unabashed voyeurism...
...claim was exaggerated, more and more apprehensive citizens were getting their money out of the country or hoarding gold-the Frenchman's historical hedge against political uncertainty. Most popular were the one-kilo ingots (currently worth $5,738), which fit nicely under mattresses, and the small $62 Napoleon d'Or and minuscule $46 demi-Napoleon coins, which can be conveniently secreted-and transported -in the traditional sock. In the past month, bidding for gold has brought the price to a near record $188 per oz. on the Paris market...
...cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived when he got there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly westerlies helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic. Napoleon was done in twice by weather: once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreat from Moscow, later by the rain that bedeviled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: "A few drops of water ... an unseasonable cloud crossing the sky. sufficed for the overthrow...
Nothing so heady is planned for Carter this trip. But Yankees abroad are always worth watching for the sheer pleasure of it. Kennedy soothed his aching back in Napoleon's gold bathtub while awed aides from Nebraska and Massachusetts watched. L.B.J. brought his exercise bicycle along, bolted it to the floor of Air Force One, and pumped away in his sweat suit at 37,000 feet over Asia in 1967. As he pedaled, he gave an interview to reporters on the glories of the first presidential circumnavigation of the globe. It was on this trip that he delivered...