Word: parise
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some artists have all the luck; others, in the long run, have very little, and Nicolas de Stael was one of these. Born in 1914, a suicide at 41 in 1955, De Stael was practically the last painter of the School of Paris whose work had much impact on American...
De Stael's paint always betokens light, even -- perhaps especially -- when, like Braque's, it is black. It shows its descent from the noble directness of touch in Manet. And there is a vast appetite for the world in it. One could wish that this show had included a few...
The French gave the world the word entrepreneur, but they have not given it many entrepreneurs. Most French businessmen still look to the government for cues and favors rather than trying to make quick profits on their own. Bernard Tapie, 47, is one of a new breed who is changing...
The son of a pipe fitter from a working-class suburb of Paris, Tapie carried sacks of coal as a youngster to help pay the family's rent. He graduated from a second-rate engineering school rather than from one of the grandes ecoles that train France's business and...
The day after news of the Adidas offer broke, the Paris stock exchange halted trading in his company's shares as doubts spread that Tapie could muster the backing from French banks to finance the takeover. At the time he was aboard his 90-ft. yacht in the Mediterranean, but...