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...RAYMOND BERTHILLON French ice cream maker...
Berthillon's exclusive delicacies lure thousands of sweet-toothed clients to his Ile St. Louis shop each year. Founded in 1954 by Raymond Berthillon and his wife, the shop became a favored spot for well-heeled Parisians before travel books began letting tourists in on the chic secret in the 1970s...
...aged, Lemmon found inspiration in the works of "serious" authors--John Osborne (a TV version of The Entertainer), David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Raymond Carver (Short Cuts)--writers with the bilious comic flow of a Wilder, but with no happy ending as a reward for all that suffering. In Glengarry Glen Ross, Lemmon is Shelley Levene, a peddler of diseased land and phony hopes, and a failure not because of scruples but because the system he serves is stacked against...
...next day, I read a critique of my speech by parents Raymond and Kristine Hebert in the Palo Alto Weekly's letters section: "Any mature adult, chosen at random and speaking extemporaneously...would have likely had a more positive effect on the audience than Mr. Stein." Mr. Stein. That sounded cool...
...fashioned way of doing business?the very things that people like Changoiwala hold so dear?helped turn their bourse into a magnet for hot money and market manipulators. Foreign pundits are even less forgiving. "A cesspool," is how John Band, the Bombay-based CEO of investment bank ASK-Raymond James describes Calcutta's bourse. Many foreign bankers have judged the exchange to be among the worst in Asia?a mismanaged, corrupt mess...