Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign of cultural revisionism, that we establish a gallery of "Degenerate Art" as the Nazis did in 1937 to express their dissatisfaction with the abstract artistic messages of the early Twentieth Century. Nor should we expose our monuments, in humorist Walt Kelly's words, to anything like the Parisian School of underground poster artists and their credo of "Vive le moustache" or the alterationist defacers of New York's Subway School who have taken it upon themselves to redo Grant's Tomb, for example, with all the skill of "a messy monkey armed with a melting chocolate...
...currency changes, good values abound. In Paris, a four-course dinner at the three-star Tour d'Argent goes for about $54, expensive by most standards but still $17 cheaper than two years ago, thanks to a 74.8% appreciation in the dollar against the French franc. At ubiquitous Parisian cafes, steak and pommes frites cost only $4, and a glass of wine can be as little as an additional 60?. Said Elaine Lustig, a Virginian traveling with her husband, last week: "We've been eating outstanding meals for one-half or one-third of what they would cost...
Beatrice Romand as Sabine makes her character a real treat to which. We never know what she's going to do next-but we do know will have to do with the pursuit of Her Intended. As her victim, the selects a stereotype of bachelorhood--a rich, handsome. Parisian lawyer named Edmond (Andre Dussolier). Her game of cat and mouse monopolizes the rest of the film and her actions reveal her desperation in finding a true place for herself in society. Of course, various plans to entrap the unsuspecting Edmond are amusing in their simple...
...freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication of a how-to manual on committing suicide...
...cathedral is silhouetted against the mist. The music reinforces the fundamental contrast inherent in the film. It is magically distant and redolent of both jazz and the French music hall. The only part of the film that unfortunately remains on the other side of the Atlantic is the salty Parisian dialogue, which the subtitles can only approximate...