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...flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc), a Parisian-educated Sino-Khmer, whose efforts to take land from the locals are as unrelenting as his pursuit of Huppert's teenaged daughter Suzanne (Astrid Berges-Frisbey). In their impoverished state, the women have more in common with their Khmer neighbors than the linen-suited colonial élite...
...National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Glimmerglass Opera - the four-star Otesaga Resort Hotel, located right on the banks of Lake Otsego is celebrating its 100th season. Like Mohonk, the resort is serving up special dishes from its 1909 menu, including rack of lamb Monte Carlo with Parisian potatoes. The hotel is right in town, within walking distance of the Fenimore Art Museum (the current exhibit features American artists' impressions of Rome at the turn of the century) and the Farmers' Museum, a living museum and ode to farming, with maple syrup-making and butter-churning demonstrations...
...impeccable ingredients grew from an early exposure to Mediterranean produce. But when he left for the capital in 1996, a multi-course homage to the vegetable like the Jardins de Provence menu he'd served since 1987 at Monte Carlo's Louis XV was dismissed as beach chow by Parisian epicureans. "Twelve years ago the vegetable was an accessory, like the make-up of a woman," Ducasse says. "There were serious Parisian foodists who told me, 'This Mediterranean cuisine isn't serious. Here we want turbot, we want sauce, we want beef...
...That covers plane tickets, essentially,” Czaplicki said. Both students said that their summer plans—for Milewski, work in a neurological research lab at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and for Czaplicki, language study at Columbia University’s Parisian campus—were entirely contingent upon receiving grant money. They also characterized their experience with the OIP as more confusing than constructive, with Czaplicki explaining, “In terms of choosing a program and figuring out what kinds of things I needed, they weren’t very helpful...
French luxury company Herms has placed its signature style on everything from Bugattis to helicopters, but this time around it has taken a greener approach with its new Toile H Smart fortwo Car, a collaboration in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Smart Car's Parisian distributor, the Como Group. Outfitted in Herms saddle-stitched leather, the 38,000-euro limited-edition car is available only in Paris and comes in 10 colors?from the classic Herms red to indigo, sky and lime. Boasting the lowest CO[subscript 2] emissions of any car (88 g/km), this tiny...