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...Metro, UBU -- DU BLUFF -- DUBUFFET, and others were not wrong in detecting, in Dubuffet's entranced and ironic use of thick pastes, an excremental vision parallel to Jarry's. One of the portraits of French intellectuals in his extravagantly controversial 1947 show at the Galerie Rene Drouin depicted the Surrealist writer Georges Limbour under the title Limbour Fashioned from Chicken Droppings. And even critics who disliked such mordant images were right on target about the context into which Dubuffet emerged, that of a postwar Paris depressed by material shortages and riven by political suspicions. "An empty pantry," wrote one critic...
...sick, I'm tired and I'm armed too." The one-liners hardly rule the show, and after his quota is filled, Eastwood really gets into character, leaving nothing to be desired. He makes a good connection with the other two lead roles, those of Agent Lily Rains (Rene Russo) and the would be assassin, a man known first as "Booth" because of his obsession with Presidential assassinations...
...Rene Russo...
...making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead we grow charcoal -- a crop with no future...
...France, there was yet another reminder that many French citizens collaborated enthusiastically with their Nazi invaders during World War II. Christian Didier, a sometime author who was born during the war, pumped four bullets into Rene Bousquet, a man he described as a "piece of garbage," then summoned TV reporters to explain the deed. Bousquet, 84, a successful former banker, had served as a high-ranking police official in the Nazi-friendly Vichy government and had been accused of deporting thousands of Jewish children to German concentration camps...