Word: frenched
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...show of 99 works by the French artist Jean-Simeon Chardin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, falls just 21 years after the last Chardin retrospective in America--which took place at the Cleveland Museum of Art and didn't reach Manhattan. Does the new show add much to our knowledge of Chardin? In a sense no, because not many fresh facts about him have surfaced in the past two decades. But in the sense that really matters, yes, and yes again. Any extended contact with Chardin is invigorating and marvelous...
...British and French industry officials, who built the Concorde together in the '60s as a kind of supersonic dove, decide that feeling is gone forever with Tuesday's catastrophe, then it's not hard to imagine that they will seriously consider retiring this distinctive, one-of-a-kind aircraft...
...destroyed their psyches by smoothly accelerating in the saddle while they stood above their seats and pumped. And that was while each was fronted by a teammate to break the wind. "I had the impression I was watching someone descending a hill I was trying to scale," said French rider Stephane Heulot...
Perhaps what really matters is this: we give more than any other nation. We are the most generous with our time and our money. Just 13% of German respondents and 19% of French volunteered their time for civic activities in the previous year, in contrast to 49% of Americans, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. And while 43% of French and 44% of Germans said they gave money to charity last year, 73% of Americans reported doing so. To be sure, many prosperous Europeans and Japanese pay far higher taxes than Americans, in part...
...time now. Cirque du Soleil--with two shows, O and Mystere, drawing sellout crowds--has introduced a whole new audience to its lyrical mix of circus and performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra, Tony Bennett) than to relatively obscure (to the high rollers in the crowd, anyway) rock...