Word: frenched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work that much needed miracle, it is Webre, 37, a gangly, verbose charmer who talks in enumerated points, flinging his arms around, marionette-style, for emphasis. "I'm a multicultural mongrel," he says, alluding to the fact that he is the son of a Cuban mother and a French-American father. Webre took his first dance lesson as an undergraduate at the University of Texas. At 29, he became head of the New Jersey-based American Repertory Ballet, turning an obscure regional troupe into a forward-looking ensemble with a reputation for unpredictability. The lackluster Washington Ballet was no less...
...pattern really began with Napoleon and forces unleashed during the French Revolution. By mobilizing the full resources of France, Napoleon created a new approach to warfare. Young people were drafted, centralized administrative structures were created, and arms production was expanded and standardized. In this new approach the stakes were high. Defeat meant the loss of the state and its territories, as a number of European monarchs discovered...
...these lapses mainly focused on words rather than actions, and despite his stepping down, even Haider himself does not seem to be able to remain silent for a while. He called French President Jacques Chirac a "pocket Napoleon." He accused Alfred Gusenbauer, head of the moderate Social Democrats, of eating with a hammer and sickle instead of fork and knife. Haider even claimed to have "reunited" Bill and Hillary Clinton after Monica Lewinsky "separated" them, since both Clintons condemned Haider's party's participation in the Austrian coalition government...
...Maybe we can put all this into perspective. The French government supports sanctions against Austria because of what Haider said about Hitler's actions fifty years ago. The French government also supported the Hutu regime in the years leading up to the worst genocide our own generation has seen. In June 1994, France allowed the killing of Tutsis to continue for another month, and the French involvement even helped the genocidal Hutu leadership to cross safely into the neighboring Congo...
...clear a broken bridge with their rich friend's new car. You'll visit Josh's grandmother's house and visit with his grandpa who has a perpetual hard-on (I'm not kidding). You'll even make a pitstop at a caf where the waiters put the french toast in their pants before serving it as punishment for demanding patrons...