Word: frenched
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...unified Germany, was forced to resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
...promise," Kohl said in announcing his resignation as honorary chairman of the party. That has only heightened speculation about just where the money may have come from--and why. Was it a donation from rich German party supporters? Or possibly a payoff from foreign businessmen? Andre Guelfi, a French businessman known as Dede the Sardine because of his ownership of a now defunct Moroccan fishing company, said he helped pass more than $40 million to the C.D.U. to help secure a contract for a German-French joint venture. He has since backtracked on many of his accusations, which are being...
...pinball machines. Yes, pinball machines. In those days, every little cafe on the Left Bank seemed to have one. Americans were drawn to them. Someone whom Ripley's friend Dickie Greenleaf might have known at Princeton would wander into a Left Bank cafe, fully committed to behaving like a French intellectual. He'd be carrying a paperback copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. He would promise himself to spend most of the afternoon staring down into his drink the way French intellectuals always stared down at their drinks in Left Bank cafes--either because they had just...
Heck, a couple of recent captains for the Canadiens didn't even know how to speak French...
...mature market. John Wakely, managing director of Lehman Brothers' London office, notes that it took Heineken 30 years to establish itself in the U.S. One way to speed things up would be to buy a Western Europe brewer. There is speculation that SAB is eyeing Kronenbourg, part of French food giant Danone...