Word: frenched
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...became babe magnets, often securing dates with neighborhood sweethearts. My skinny body and quick reflexes made me a popular choice for serious teams and consequently a hot item on the street, until Daniel Block walked into the picture. "Flash," as they started calling him, was a 16-year-old French Jew whose father taught painting at my high school. Though Daniel concealed being a Jew, he was boisterous about being the best ballon chasseur player and about having persuaded May Qudsi to let him peek at her underpants behind closed doors. May was not only my flame but a Palestinian...
Fancy-schmancy French restaurants might be fine for gorging like a Republican fat cat, but how does one dine like a Democrat? The correct answer, of course, is go to a fancy-schmancy French restaurant - just because Democrats are singing paeans to the blue-collar class doesn't mean they actually want to eat with them. (Here the McDonald's-eating New Democrat Bill Clinton is a laudable exception...
...could argue that what keeps America the world's only superpower today - especially economically - is precisely the same vulgar culture that Lieberman reviles. Crappy American movies imprint the American consciousness across every continent; millions of little Elians the world over go to bed and dream of Lara Croft; French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers). America doesn't dominate the world because it fears us; we dominate because the rest of the world wants...
...victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style. "Christian Lacroix, Galliano--I have a taste for the elegant," she says, pointing to a rack of sumptuous $200 wedding dresses in the back of her shop. "I want to make Vietnamese look beautiful." But in a city where a college graduate would be happy to land a job paying...
...French!" I thought to assume that it is Americans who must change. "The French need to forget their impossibly high standards of cinema and give the States what it wants!" How American...