Word: yvon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived at the hilltop campus building. Armed with a hunting knife and a .223-cal. Ruger rifle manufactured in the U.S., Lepine climbed to the second-floor corridor and shot a woman student dead. Then, a carefree grin on his face, he entered the mechanical-engineering class of Professor Yvon Bouchard, where a student was in the midst of presenting his term project. "I want the women!" cried Lepine, ordering female students to one side of the room and men into the hall. "We thought it was a joke," said Bouchard. They learned otherwise when the gunman pumped several rounds...
...have lately grown concerned that he is not moving fast enough to put his program in place. The Confederation Nationale du Patronat Francais, which represents 90% of France's major companies, has long argued that excessive state regulation was smothering the economy. Since 1980, according to C.N.P.F. President Yvon Gattaz, France's share of the world market for manufactured goods has dropped from 10.2% to 8.2%. The reasons for this decline, says Gattaz, include a "punitive" corporate tax and the substantial charges that companies must pay for their employees' social benefits. C.N.P.F. estimates that these corporate taxes and charges total...
Along the way, Guerrero informed his captors that he did not have all the keys needed to open the facility's double-door system. Some were in the possession of another Brink's security officer, Yvon Bertoux. Within hours, Bertoux was abducted from the parking lot of his suburban apartment and his son held hostage while Bertoux was taken to the Brink's complex. Once inside, the gunmen managed to overpower four other guards and force Guerrero and Bertoux to help open the safe. The take, an estimated $9.5 million in cash and valuables, was the largest theft...
...cause his stubborn rectitude marks him as an alien in the kingdom of greed, he must suf fer an almost comic series of calamities: fired from his job, then jailed, then abandoned by his wife (Caroline Lang). His child must die. Finally, his spirit purified into psychosis, Yvon must kill...
...technician of metaphysics, is fascinated by the machinery of injustice. Everything from a bank's cash dispenser to the French legal system to a finely honed ax is considered for its practical application. Nothing works, except for Bresson's own favorite machine, the movie camera; like Yvon, it refuses to counterfeit obeisance to a society motivated by its own corruption. Bresson, too, regards humanity with the ferocious passivity of a stone lion on some abandoned antique isle. At 76 he has made his most serene and terrifying film to date, one that strikes at its target like...