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...Socialist heaven, meanwhile, the cherubs are busily filling out their income tax returns when two horned devils from Hades, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, try to seize power. But in the finale the good Lord Mitterrand in gilded pajamas-aided by winged archangels in silver-lamé union suits-repulses the celestial coup attempt by beating back the interlopers with long-stemmed Socialist roses...
...controversial, more prosperous Giscard era. Now they are thriving as never before and playing to full houses in the Théâtre des Deux Anes and other pocket-size theaters on the garish lower slopes of Montmartre. If the audience claps with delight, it is not at the Socialist government's heavenly victory so much as at the sight of the great and powerful being ridiculed. "The French have always enjoyed making fun of their politicians," exults Comedian Pierre Douglas. "Now they're wild about...
...Mitterrand's Socialist government marked its third anniversary last week, there was plenty of material for the chansonniers. Beyond the demonstrations (commonplace), inflation (slowing), unemployment (rising) and the strains between Socialists and Communists in the ruling coalition (severe), there has been a ripple effect of change across much of the social landscape. Few aspects of French life have remained untouched by the electoral upheaval that gave France its first leftist government in three decades. In areas as diverse as law and education, communications and fashion, business and dining, the France of 1984 bears Mitterrand's distinct imprint...
...gilt-edged world of horse racing, Socialist moves have cut two ways. At first the punitive new 75% top-bracket income tax rate accelerated a flight of French thoroughbreds to the U.S. and Ireland. But since then the racing fraternity has been gratified by thoroughly Socialist interventions: the government sank a $2 million subsidy into buying 80% of a prized French stud named the Wonder to keep him in France...
...Socialist era has brought to the fore a new generation of personalities, like Christine Ockrent, 39, the clear-eyed and bob-haired anchorwoman on the evening news for Antenne 2. Ockrent, who has the added allure of having previously worked for CBS, is not a Socialist. But she epitomizes, if anybody does, what one woman writer accurately calls the Socialist ideal of the contemporary Frenchwoman: independent, progressive and athletic...