Word: nouvel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians working on behalf of Libya. The newsweekly Le Point hinted that the CIA might have been involved, and Le Nouvel Observateur insinuated that the French secret service had set the charges...
...jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized "the insanity of totalitarianism in the guise of the clerical spirit...
...myself the recipient of the news just as the public will be, and to re-create before the public my reaction as I first felt it. In other words, it's more a carnal, physical style of communication than an analysis in words." According to the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Gicquel, "carrying the burden of all the distress, loneliness and violence, grimaces painfully over all the international tensions and unemployment...
...cher ($5.95), was published in the U.S. last month by 21st Century Communications. Ten volumes of her work have appeared in France, and recent ones have sold more than 100,000 copies each. To Roland Barthes, a leading French writer-philosopher, Bretécher is "the best French sociologist." Nouvel Observateur Editor Jean Daniel calls her "the servant of Molière." Bretécher would answer such praise with her favorite epithet, "bidon" baloney...
...early Bretéchers were Turnips in the Cosmos, a sci-fi epic, and Cellulite, the saga of a husband-hunting medieval princess. Publisher Claude Perdriel was impressed by some of her more satirical strips, and in 1974 offered her the newly vacant job of regular cartoonist at his Nouvel Observateur. "I submitted my work on the condition that they did not require me to hang around for a lot of conferences and that they did not censor me," Bretécher recalls. To test Perdriel's sincerity, she drew as her first effort a saucy strip...