Word: revoir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does deserve a more critical look, and not the unabashed enthusiasm everything e-related receives now. Before we rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...
...Burt Lancaster as an aging hood playing out the role of dashing outlaw that had eluded him in his youth. His oddest film was 1981's My Dinner with Andre, a 110-minute conversation in which two friends wrestle with transcendent issues and nouvelle cuisine. But Malle called Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)--a memoir of his days at a Catholic school that concealed Jewish children from the Nazis--"the one film I would like to be remembered...
...high-voltage subjects contrasted with an often reflective style, captured in his stateside success "Atlantic City" (1980), starring Burt Lancaster as an aging hood, and 1981's "My Dinner with Andre", in which two friends wrestle over the earthly, the transcendent, and some painfully nouvelle cuisine. Malle called "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (1988), an autobiographical account of Jewish children hiding from the Holocaust at a French Catholic School, "the one film I would like to be remembered for." Candice Bergen, his widow, accompanied his body to France for burial...
...walked away from the group of teenagers, I realized that they were very similar to me and to other American teenagers. I say "bonjour" and "au revoir" once in a while. I wear a beret occasionally and drink French wine because I think these things are pretty cool. And while I don't have a problem using these bits and pieces of the French culture in my everyday life, I would have a problem giving up my language, religion or dress for the sake of universality...
Just because two departments share the same water-cooler doesn't mean that intellectual cross-pollination, let alone revolutionary thinking, will result. We have witnessed what happens when adherents of one discipline are given power over the future of another: au revoir, Linguistics...