Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battered suitcase. France's favorite comedian Michel Colucci-known better as Coluche-is opening his nightly act at Paris' Théâtre du Gymnase. "Hey," Coluche begins in his usual patois, "we've negotiated a fantastic deal with the Soviets: we give them all our wheat, and they let us keep our coal." The son of an Italian immigrant house painter, Coluche, 36, has now become something more than a nightclub satirist puncturing the pretensions of politicians and diplomats in the coarse argot of la France profonde-the real France of factory workers, small farmers...
...drink your oil you shmuck, we'll eat our heads of wheat...
...shorter than the other; the 3-ft.-high bronze krater, or urn, found in a grave at Derveni, encircled by Dionysian figures going through the motions of a languid orgy. And there will be several miniature oohs at the smaller bronzes and the medallions and the three ears of wheat fashioned in gold, life-size and perfect (used as a funerary offering). But the main effect of the show will come after it has left the eyes and visitors begin to mull over the enormity of what is implied here. Most exhibitions create silence. This one should cause insistent talk...
THERE IS A fundamental miscalculation in the new production of Uncle Vanya--the distance it puts us from the actors. Derek McLane's attractive set consists of a tall house frame, cocked at a slight angle upstage, and, to its right, a large patch of wheat and two swings that seem to reach forever up to the proscenium arch. The action after the first act is confined mainly to the house, which is towering but not very roomy, divided as it is into different levels. The actors, then, are both distant and dwarfed, surrounded by space and yet cramped...
...trying to give the embargo the coup de grâce. France, which is Western Europe's leading grain producer, although it is not a major world exporter, has just completed a bumper harvest. The French this year will have 3 million to 4 million tons of wheat available for export. As a member of the European Community, France is bound by a pledge made last winter that it would not take advantage of the American embargo by boosting its own grain exports to the Soviet Union. But now the French government wants the Community to shelve the commitment...