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Suddenly the choreography turns into sauve qui peut: Airlines are in absolute disarray, expense accounts bill thousand-euro Eurostar tickets, the German chancellor buses from Rome back home, and, at the ever-so-fancy Dorchester Hotel tea promenade in London, one can be offered a private jet seat back to New York for only 10 thousand euros...
...become an apprentice hairdresser. Four years later, filmmaker Philippe Labro discovered the young man in a Paris nightclub teaching people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel Bouquet and devouring the classics. "I couldn't go to school," he says, "so like all self-taught people, I immersed myself in the works of two or three great writers...
...available in the U.S. since 1908. That same year, Cartier, the international jeweler, also arrived on these shores. Moreover, the two French enterprises originally enjoyed the patronage of Napoleon III, who had good taste if not much else. So how to celebrate their twinnage? A diamond-studded Perrier decanter, peut-étre? Nothing so bourgeois. What Cartier has designed for Perrier is a $45 three-piece sterling silver set consisting of an artfully shaped bottle opener and two engraved bottle stoppers...
...itself will cure inflation, but in combination they should have a strong, long-term impact. Even then, something more will be needed. Inflation is a matter of psychology as well as Government action or inaction, and runaway price boosts have a devastating tendency to produce a sauve-qui-peut mood in which everyone tries to stay one jump ahead of the crowd. Says Swiss Banker Alfred Schaefer: "A successful fight against inflation implies, first of all, a change of mentality in all layers of the population. It is essential to reaffirm the value of the principle of return...
...sniping at the Bonn government for not providing enough money for a regional fund to aid depressed areas like Scotland; the Germans are angry with the French for floating the franc and thus trying to underprice German exports; the Dutch are still seething over Britain's sauve qui peut attitude during the oil crisis; the French continue to deal with the Community in the same haughty way that they dealt with their colonies in the 19th century...