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...Woman=Woperson; Person=Perchild; Woman=Woperchild. VIVE LA FEMME! VIVE LA FRANCE...
...sophisticated Frenchness to much of the world were the film stars Yves Montand and Simone Signoret -- the former a native Italian from a town near Florence, the latter born in Germany to an Austrian-Polish-Jew ish father. As Cyrano himself might have crowed, in a slightly different context, Vive la difference...
...Manhattan of your dreams, at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But are they aware that falling in like can be as dangerous as falling in love? Reiner, who based the film partly on his life after being divorced from actress Penny Marshall, thinks he knows: "People say, 'Vive la difference,' but it's more like a cruel joke created by God. Men and women desperately want to be with each other, but at the same time they can't stand each other and don't understand each other...
...French words for every modern occasion. Thus, a Frenchman now listens to his baladeur, rather than a Walkman, and plans vacations according to his partage de temps, and not his time-share. While some of the expressions are felicitous -- the computer term random-access memory becomes simply memoire vive (live memory) -- some are decidedly clumsy. Computer hardware is vaguely called materiel, and the futures market has become le marche de contrats a terme (limited-term contract market). But, insists Mitterrand, "either our language is in the computer data base or it ceases to be one of the great methods...
...good guest. He made it a point to arrive in Ottawa, the English-speaking federal capital, rather than Quebec, as De Gaulle had done. After meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, he gave a speech to a joint session of Parliament, concluding the address with some reverse symbolism. "Vive le Canada," he intoned. Talks on trade and a fishing dispute produced no new agreements. But both Mulroney and Mitterrand had reason to be pleased as the French President boarded his Concorde SST for the flight home. The visit's very lack of excitement meant that a shadow hanging over relations...