Word: frenchwoman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word scene, the Slam star has talked nonstop about the movie at film festivals since it won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance last January. Nevertheless, the actor was nearly dumbstruck at Cannes, where the picture scored two more awards. As he walked with director Marc Levin, an elderly Frenchwoman approached him and started to cry. "It was amazing," recalls Levin. "She said she had been in the Resistance as a teenager and had already seen the movie twice because it showed the struggle for freedom...
...Polish nebbish gets even with the nasty Frenchwoman of his dreams. In this dark comedy (second episode in the wonderful Blue-White-Red trilogy), director Krzysztof Kieslowski cannily observes the flourishing of capitalism and the festering of emotion in his wayward homeland...
...Allan Poe. There is the Soap Lady, who, underground and buried, decomposed into a waxy gray substance called adipocere; she was purchased by the museum for $7.50 when Philadelphia's old cemetery was moved in 1875. Then there is the pair of twins who share a single skull; the Frenchwoman who grew horny protrusions all over her body, including her forehead (top left); a heart made translucent by chemicals; the constipation-racked colon of the Balloon Man, which swelled to 8 ft. long and 27 in. around before -- as the organ's label records -- his case "terminated fatally." The bladder...
...Turner today explains his numerous entanglements. Robert Wussler, his former senior executive vice president, says Turner's amorous philosophy was "a port in every storm." In some cases, it was literally a woman in every port: he once scandalized the yachting circuit by sailing around with a blond Frenchwoman tending galley, sometimes topless. As a husband to Janie, he could be mean, and publicly so. Roddey recalls the time Turner brought his wife over to a table to introduce her to a group and "somebody said, 'You sure have a beautiful woman there.' And Ted said...
...Take a Frenchwoman, age 27: she's earning 75% of the male wage. She is not doing as well as her American counterpart because she does not have the same opportunities. But take her at 35, with two children, working full time, and guess what? She's still earning 75% of the male wage. She isn't losing ground. And that is because of the extraordinary investment France has made in preschool, maternity leave and other family supports. She does not have to quit her job when her children are small or limit herself to simple jobs close to home...