Word: rigueur
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...Marie-Gabriel says he saw similar potential in mocking the sparkling, de rigueur New Year's Eve festivities that many French admit to hating. "It started with me and another guy realizing most New Year's Eves in France are just really boring evenings people are forced into with others they neither know nor like," he recalls. "So we started holding anti-New Year protest parties for people wanting an alternative - and an excuse to demonstrate! Sure, 98% of France thinks we're losers, but the 2% who get it make it worthwhile...
...biscuits," says Golding. "There was a failure to appreciate that we were at the élite end of the hard-core surf market." The brand hadn't moved with the times, persisting with oversized clothes and huge graphics long after a sharper look became de rigueur. Its youth appeal dipped when kids spotted Mambo tees and shorts on the middle-aged, then plunged in 2006 when Gazal shifted Mambo stock from surf shops to department stores. From those '90s peaks of $40 million, in 2007 Mambo turned over $10 million...
France has long liked to see itself as the other, non-American model for organizing a modern economy, with a rich tradition of exalting the state and disdaining "Anglo-Saxon"-style capitalism. So it would be completely de rigueur for the French to smile smugly over Washington's French-style intervention in the financial markets. But by and large, they're not. For however suddenly the U.S. government has embraced the Gallic tradition of nationalization, the French economy has itself been slowly and surely becoming très américaine. As a result, the impulse to utter "I told...
...hold high positions of leadership and esteem, and we can even legally marry our sweethearts in Memorial Church. Although I wasn’t at Harvard in 1982, I understand that it was a very different place then, and that silence and social sanction were de rigueur for virtually all queer folks...
...more vehemently socialist days, tennis was frowned upon, viewed as a marker of capitalist excess. (Any sport in which a major tournament has English nobility sampling strawberries and cream on the sidelines hardly bespoke of communist equality.) But China has changed, and a decent backhand is now considered de rigueur among many progeny of the Chinese elite. There's also the matter of international glory: Like dozens of other sports, tennis was targeted by the country's sports czars as a possible manufacturer of gold medals and world titles. In the 1990s, China poured money into tennis, siphoning off promising...