Word: frenched
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...other end of Harvard Square, the JFK St. CVS location has been undergoing renovations all summer, moving to a smaller location next to the French bakery...
PARIS--In eighth grade Mr. Hendershot asked our social studies class if we thought there was such a thing as an American culture. The consensus: no. Americans had jeans, Hollywood and fast food. We had image. The French, the people who have 246 different kinds of cheese and are responsible for the words laissez-faire, joie de vivre and restaurant, had culture. Now, I laugh at my innocent naivete. American culture is stronger than Microsoft stock pre anti-trust ruling. I know because I tried...
Among the witnesses to the crash was French President Jacques Chirac, who had just returned from Tokyo on an Air France flight. Chirac's plane had been taxiing toward the terminal but paused to let the Concorde take off. As Chirac and his wife watched the pride of French technology speed down the runway, they were appalled to see flames shooting from its left side, then the cloud of smoke that followed the crash. Chirac's first instinct was to rush to the scene, but he decided his presence would complicate rescue efforts. He returned to the presidential palace, where...
EXTRADITION ORDERED. Of IRA EINHORN, 60, former Philadelphia New Age guru; by French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin; to the U.S. to stand trial for the 1977 murder of girlfriend Holly Maddux. French courts refused to extradite him until he was granted a new trial. (See TIME, Sept...
Marty's windsurf from Dakar, Senegal, to French Guiana took 37 days. He refused even to allow his support boat to tow him while he slept: "I didn't want to gain a single mile unless my wrists and arms felt it," he later told a magazine interviewer. "For me, freedom is being able to choose my own challenges. I am not afraid of losing, because there are honorable defeats." Among them, surely, his defeat last week...