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...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it - and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it--and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...weeks, Dion will play Las Vegas in a show that dwarfs any comparison with Streisand or Presley and makes even the late Colonel's wildest financial fantasies seem tame. On March 25--the same day she releases a new album and appears in a CBS special--Dion will begin a three-year run at Caesars Palace in A New Day, a concert-dance-theater spectacular directed by former Cirque du Soleil mastermind Franco Dragone. In exchange for five shows a week, 40 weeks a year, Dion will get a reported $100 million plus 50% of the profits. She will also...
...difficult to understand why the authorities need to save Indonesians from the dangers of Inul. True, her wardrobe seems to consist entirely of Lycra, but her sartorial style and stage manner are tame compared with the scantily clad Indian stars who can be found shimmying away on any TV in the country. And as for the forbidden dance itself, it's less erotic than pneumatic. As Inul bends her knees and swings her butt?in what, after careful and repeated observations, I'd estimate to be a 120? arc?she resembles a glittering piston. Betraying her rock roots, Inul doesn...
...other tragedies, the impact did not end with the event itself; this week, we face the haunting legacy of Sept. 11 in the form of a new war and new terrorist threats to New York. Such a remarkable situation cannot possibly be contained neatly within a traditional package of tame buildings or a static memorial...