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...popularity of the Prime Minister and the economic situation." The sputtering economy? "We'll have a pick-up hopefully in early 2004." The outrage from unions? "This seems normal when you are undertaking an important reform program." All the talk of decline? The last gasp of an enervated Parisian "nomenklatura" who "have for years been writing things that have all proved to be wrong." But the glum state of France isn't that easily explained away, and Raffarin's incremental approach to reform - a 3% income-tax cut instead of the promised 5%; shelving vital health-insurance reform until next...
...picks up, he vows, he'll tackle the vision thing with more gusto, focusing on completing his reforms of the pension and health-care systems and pushing power and money from Paris to the regions. To get there, Raffarin will have to confront ornery unions, suspicious voters and the Parisian élite who believe the Prime Minister is a symptom of French decline. "France is too hierarchical, too pyramidal," he says. All the decline-mongers are "like the cork in a champagne bottle judging the champagne. That cork has to pop so we can taste the champagne." There's still...
...parisian Elite hasn't noticed yet that I'm decentralizing this country. Don't tell them. By the time they realize it, it will be too late
...longer has a monopoly over the general interest. France was raised on the idea that the state is the solution for everything. No. The physician has a role in the general interest too. So has the businessman. It's not the state alone that defends the national interest. Our Parisian élite hasn't noticed yet that I'm decentralizing this country. Don't tell them. By the time they realize it, it will be too late for them. So what will change? We've changed the constitution so the state can't make decisions that are financially...
...With such accomplished paintings as the big, crystalline Family Reunion and the sensuous, almost Orientalist, La Toilette this small show makes clear how much extraordinary promise was lost with Bazille's early death. Jean Cocteau was a jack-of-all-trades - poet, playwright, novelist, artist, designer, filmmaker and quintessential Parisian socialite - whose career covered the decades from 1909 to 1963. Jean Cocteau, Spanning the Century, which opened last week and runs until Jan. 5 before moving to Montreal, is, like the man, somewhere in the surrealist realm of wretched excess, offering more than 700 drawings, photographs, collages, film clips...