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...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...
...themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists and left-wing Socialists. After all, said Blot, "Reagan has merely recognized the fact that France, because of its colonial past...
...eight months after an 8.5% devaluation against the mark, last week's realignment was the turning point in the 13-month-old attempt by the Socialist government to spur economic growth and curb unemployment through government spending-an approach diametrically opposed to that of the Reagan Administration. Said Yvon Gattaz, the peppery president of France's National Council of Employers: "No developed country can, without damage, go against the anti-inflation policies practiced in the rest of the world...
...politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature and value" of the gifts, did not deny that a "traditional exchange" had taken place. Bokassa also gave diamonds, the weekly said, to Cabinet Ministers Robert Galley and Yvon Bourges, and Giscard's top adviser, René Journiac. Other alleged recipients: Giscard's brother, Business Consultant Olivier, and two of their cousins, Banker François and Finance Official Jacques. Unlike the President, his relatives all denied the allegations...