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...After the new chastity, it's a return to sin," proclaimed the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur. It is the lambada, a sensuous dance that sets the pelvis-to-pelvis physicality of Dirty Dancing to a steamy Brazilian beat. Spawned on the northeast coast of Brazil, the lambada has swept through France this summer. A soda commercial showing young bodies entwined in a lambada frenzy was an instant hit, and Lambada, a song that served as the ad's sound track, has sold more than 1 million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Dirty Dancing, Ma Cherie? | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...atrophy of an artificially into the atrophy of an artificially sustained monologue it moves it advances, it retreats. The finest moments leave the reader, the eavesdropper, the innocent voyeur, with a mingled sense of horror and satisfaction at the audacity with which Barthes engages in verbal fencing: (from Le Nouvel Observateur...

Author: By Roland Bathes, | Title: Word Grain | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Paris, the left-leaning French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur said that Chernenko had suffered a "brain (stroke) or cardiac attack." The attack occurred a week ago and robbed Chernenko of his speech, the magazine claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union the Succession Problem | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...hair and grilling the young violinists who passed before him: "Who did you study with? Why did you choose that piece? Can you explain why you are holding the instrument that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Tempo at 60: Prestissimo | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Atom Thriller | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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