Word: uppityness
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For far too long the U.S. tended to take Mexico for granted?ignoring it when possible and otherwise treating it with the arrogant condescension usually reserved by big brothers for uppity younger siblings. No longer is that attitude possible or plausible, and one big reason is oil. Since 1972, when...
This time Deneuve-or is it Deneuve-1?-plays an elegant, slightly tarnished Parisienne who, rather implausibly, finds herself accompanying a detachment of French Foreign Legionnaires to Morocco just after World War I. The Legionnaires are assigned to protect a French archaeological expedition against attacks by uppity Arab tribes who...
Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the...
Why the kinky images? Some think it is nothing more than a scream for attention from photographers and editors who find their audiences increasingly difficult to shock. Alex Liberman, editorial director of Conde Nast publications, considers it "just an experiment with something new, a trend, a moment of spice." Feminists...
What happened after Reconstruction was worse--the cruel first cousins left the region (militarily) but stayed on in spirit to plunder it by proxy, eventually coming to make easy money through the South's cheap raw materials--oil, timber, coal, cotton--and cheap, uneducated labor. And the people who had...