Word: parise
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"We are made to live for others. But one really dies only for oneself." The author of this journal entry was 46 and world famous when he was killed in a car crash south of Paris on Jan. 4, 1960. Within this short life, Albert Camus had won the 1957...
Camus is once again intriguing literary Paris. "His feverish voice is throughout," writes critic Francoise Giroud, "a voice that, at times, pierces your heart." In the newsmagazine Le Point, Jacques-Pierre Amette declares that "the voice of Camus, more resonant than ever in its trembling solemnity, addresses itself to today...
I first observed the phenomenon over the summer as I walked through the streets of Paris. I was strolling past a cafe, when I heard the words, "C'est cool," being muttered from afar. I stopped, turned my head and followed the mutterings until I found their source. My eyes...
It is among the deepest of compulsions in Western civilization: to own what we love. Sometimes the object of our possessiveness is a house or a spouse. For Lise, a six-year-old from Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the demands are simpler. She wants three dolls, among thousands on display...
But now this cottage industry has exploded. Welcome to the Toon Age of worldwide retailing, an age when Warner's fearsome Tasmanian Devil becomes a cult figure for kids, dads and inner-city gang members; when no little girl feels chic without her Princess Jasmine dress (from the smash Disney...