Word: saxon
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Conversely, foreign fiction - especially topical, realistic novels - sells well in France. Such story-driven Anglo-Saxon authors as William Boyd, John le Carré and Ian McEwan are over-represented on French best-seller lists, while Americans such as Paul Auster and Douglas Kennedy are considered adopted sons. "This is a place where literature is still taken seriously," says Kennedy, whose The Woman in the Fifth was a recent best seller in French translation. "But if you look at American fiction, it deals with the American condition, one way or another. French novelists produce interesting stuff, but what they...
...think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen ... I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again...
...think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen ... I havemade unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again.' MICHAEL CHERTOFF, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, blasting FEMA employees for staging a fake news conference about assisting the victims of the California wildfires...
...credit, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lambasted FEMA after the story broke in the Washington Post several days later. "I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government," Chertoff said. "I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment...
...Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Skotak (“Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) worked on the special effects. Hellman’s segment of “Trapped Ashes” screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006. John Saxon, veteran of such classics as “Enter the Dragon” and “Nightmare on Elm Street” stars in the film. “Hopefully people will be entertained and provoked and disturbed as well,” says Bartok...