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...Lautrec's most complete answer to the Parnassian pretensions of French artists' circles in the '90s-the kind of high-mindedness he had mocked as a student, ten years before, with an acrid parody of Puvis de Chavannes's Sacred Grove, into whose pallid scattering of muses he introduced a line of stray moderns from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf of Parnassus. Lautrec thought the timeless and the eternal a boring joke, and in At the Moulin Rouge he offered the alternative: let the aesthetes dedicate themselves...
...grands crus wines, especially those grown on the Côte d'Or, the Slope of Gold, and the Côte de Beaune can be sampled along with lesser vintages at wine caves or the many charming restaurants along the road. The great regional dishes are considerably less expensive than pallid Parisian versions of this essentially peasant food. The one-star Les Gourmets at Mar-sannay-la-Côte serves a $12 dinner...
...appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys the someone-is-always-watching-you motif with incomparable creepiness. Donald Sutherland is an intelligent, if pallid detective, but the protagonist is Jane all the way, the frustrated hooker trapped by the emotional and physical perils of her profession. Her best performance to date...
...longest-serving member of the Kenya National Assembly, arap Moi is known as "the father of the House" - a pallid echo of Kenyatta's favorite title, "the father of the nation." Says one Western diplomat in Nairobi: "The man's no Kenyatta. But it's rather like the American system of choosing a fairly ordinary guy whom quite a lot of people respect and few really hate...
...appear schematic (well, it does, but we're still scared to death). You gotta credit Alan J. Pakula though, who here, as in All the President's Men and the Parallax View, conveys the someone-is-always-watching-you motif with incomparable creepiness. Donald Sutherland is an intelligent, if pallid detective, but the protagonist is Jane all the way, the frustrated hooker trapped by the emotional and physical perils of her profession. Her best performance to date...