Word: rying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rome's new assertiveness dates from the four-nation summit of NATO members called by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in Guadeloupe in 1979 to address the West's defense problems. But Italy was not invited. That humiliation produced lingering resentment and a determination to shake off Italy's image as an inconsequential nation...
...response to the Polish crisis. There must not be any weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...small town of Chamalières, France, the expensively tailored resident quietly slipped into city hall to register his candidacy for the job of local conseiller général (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards...
...many. But this is still a successful invasion of Peckinpah County, where bogus high life and a quick ugly death too often intersect. The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody as much of the 20th century American male-sexy, psychotic, desperate, heroic-as any movie star today...
...scheme, the official explained, would have to await the anticipated re-election of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, in May, but he suggested that the planning begin. The meeting broke up with no decision being made. Still, U.S. officials agreed to keep the talks going. The venture came to an abrupt halt when Giscard was unexpectedly defeated at the polls by Socialist Francois Mitterrand...