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London was not the only European capital to come down with a case of political instability. In Paris, French President Georges Pompidou decided that it was time for a change and replaced an old Cabinet with a new one headed by a not-so-nouveau Premier. In Rome, yet another shaken Italian coalition government fell-or, rather, was pushed into resigning. Items...
...whose social and political ideology disagree with such previous policies as Dayan's 'crawling annexation' of the occupied territories which culminated in the notorious 'Gallili document'; the encouragement of a process which will enable Arab (cheap or expansive labor under Israeli management, and the cultivation of the young Israeli nouveau riche sector who profited immensly from the enormous defense expenditures in the last six years. Secondly, Golda's endurance as no.1 in Labor's candidate list is a continuation of the pre-October war formal political fabric in sharp disregard of the material change which the war generated in Israel...
...trumpet for this gastronomic treason is Le Nouveau Guide Gault-Millau, a glossy, 120-odd-page journalistic compendium of recipes, restaurant reviews and guides, plus lengthy culinary debates. The monthly magazine, now four years old, evolved from the two editors' decade-long collaboration on 18 guidebooks to France and beyond. "G. and M." as some call the Paris-based magazine, exerts influence far beyond its 145,000 circulation. Its editors are currently dashing the chauvinistic notion that to be gustatorily gifted is to be French. They regularly grade domestic Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Vietnamese food...
...years it has been the preoccupation of French novelists of the nouveau roman-Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mark Saporta, et al.73151;to build their fictions exclusively from facts, objects, appearances, surfaces and the impressions of the moment. Even when the method works, the result is long-winded; but it can have the illusionist beauty of pointillism that only makes sense as the onlooker steps back...
Second, I was from the Midwest, and the nouveau riche out there have a notion of high-falutin' Harvard. At Detroit cocktail parties when someone drops the name, a shock of respect invariably registers on the listener's face. Second strike--I suffered from a feeling of cultural inferiority...