Word: frenched
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Other attractions are just plain distracting. Taking a cue from Cirque du Soleil's O and Mystere (still the most flabbergasting spectacles on the planet), the Paris has put on its own French-accented musical. Notre Dame de Paris gives Victor Hugo's Quasimodo tale a pop-rock attitude, as the performers growl Richard Cocciante's ho-hummable score into their Madonna mikes. A few fine singers (Janien Masse as Esmeralda, Francis Ruivivar as Frollo) can't save the old tragedy from becoming a new disaster. The show's big, all right: a big mess...
DIED. ROGER VADIM, 72, French filmmaker whose 1956 directorial debut, And God Created Woman, launched wife Brigitte Bardot in films; of cancer; in Paris. In more than two dozen movies, Vadim won a reputation for making stars out of the stunning women he married, including Jane Fonda. Vadim, who once lived with Catherine Deneuve between marriages, explained his need for feminine beauty in his life and work as "my style, my nature...
...sense that they are not just designing department stores and offices but rendering the spirit of the age in steel and stone. In recent years, some of the more theoretically inclined among them, such as Peter Eisenman and Steven Holl, have been connecting their designs to things like French literary analysis, the kind that presumes to dismantle the falsehoods of language, or the "chaos theory" of physics, with its universe built on bubbling disorder. To put it mildly, these are notions that conventional buildings, with their aura of stability and authority, don't do much to express. But a building...
...create something that contains fragments of other songs but sounds nothing like any of those songs, have you in fact written a new song? This is a question that will keep music lawyers busy for a long time. Yet it's a development that will make the French deconstructionists happy. They've been saying for years that the act of reading completes the written work. By 2025, the distinction between listener and composer will be completely blurred...
...inflamed by the arrival of Albanian "reinforcements" is the apparent disarray among the KFOR peacekeeping forces. A KFOR sweep to search for weapons on the Serb side of town Sunday broke down into chaos as Serbs accused the U.S. forces carrying out the raid of heavy-handedness, while the French contingent that commands the divided town apparently failed to maintain order - with the result that the Americans were eventually ordered to leave amid a volley of bricks and bottles hurled by protesters, leaving NATO looking decidedly ineffectual. U.S. troops returned to the Serb enclave Monday, while other NATO troops searched...