Word: pascale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prostitutes and street people of New York City's East Village. In place of Puccini's Mimi, dying of tuberculosis, is Larson's Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega), a drug-addicted dancer in an S&M club who is suffering from AIDS. The Rudolfo she falls for is Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive rock singer who longs for one great song to leave behind...
...spite of the massive disruptions and frayed nerves, public opinion appears to favor the strikers. But most analysts agree that Chirac has little choice but to stay the course. "If the government backs off this time, it is finished," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life. "There is no way it could last to the next general elections or avoid a very serious political crisis...
...French decision on technical grounds, questioning whether this series of tests would mark a fundamental advance in simulation technology. "A few more tests won't really make much difference in their program," says a U.S. State Department expert. "They can improve it, but they won't perfect it." Pascal Boniface, director of the Paris-based Institute for International and Strategic Relations, agrees: "These tests are not going to perfect simulation techniques right away." Other skeptics were quick to point out that live tests were in any case unnecessary for the development of simulation techniques, since the French could acquire...
...Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst," says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and a longtime Gates watcher. According to G. Pascal Zachary, author of Showstopper! (Free Press; $22.95), a book about the making of Windows NT, the company is the model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even...
...behind him. The artfully twisted limbs and contorted white bodies come not from "Schindler's List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...