Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This unlikely partnership between the modern American minimalist and the chain-smoking Gallic dandy has resulted in 1993's Orphee, 1994's La Belle et la Bete and now Les Enfants Terribles, each based on a film of the same name by Cocteau. Distinguished not only by Glass's familiar, artful brand of minimalist music but also by Cocteau's impish, erotic sensibility, the operas are nevertheless quite different from one another. Orphee was a conventional opera that followed the script of the original film. With La Belle, Glass went a step further, stripping the film of its sound track...
...politics, some say Americans are becoming more European, more willing to tolerate peccadilloes in their leaders without calling for the guillotine. But if one day Americans, like the French, end up tolerating a President with a separate family on the side, it won't be out of some Gallic lack of puritanism. It will be out of a weary, hard-won, American-style pragmatism. It will be because Americans have decided that it just plain makes sense to carve out distinctions between private morality and public character...
...more than half his adult life in Paris--in the '70s as a Rhodes scholar writing his doctoral thesis ("America in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871"), in the '80s as a TIME correspondent and since January 1993 as the head of our bureau. Helping deepen his Gallic roots are his French wife Sylvaine and their two binational children, Sandy, 26, and Julian...
Alain De Botton won a lot of half-envious attention with his first book, On Love, a tale that seasoned an alan as Gallic as his name with an irony as British as his upbringing. The genius of the book, written when he was 23 and translated into 13 languages, was to chart the parabolic trajectory of a love, while showing that charts tell us nothing we need to know of love. De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written...
...this is one mark of a movie star-even in her worst, or least, films. For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take...