Word: lange
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...
Petropoulos draws a careful distinction between American and European styles within his department. Like the Romance Lang and Lit department, he says, "you do have the Euro chic crowd here...
...although Romance Lang and Lit students seemed particularly impressed by their own sense of fashion, other departments are not about to let their "Best Dressed" reputation go unchallenged...
...magazine's relaunch may be Steinem's last chance to save the pioneering monthly that she helped start in 1972. Before it was sold last fall to publisher Dale Lang, Ms. was losing $150,000 a month, and circulation has since dropped from 550,000 to under...
...illustrious list of speakers included Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement, Culture Minister Jack Lang and National Assembly President Laurent Fabius. But the French public seemed more than a little blase: only about 30 people showed up last week for a political colloquium on the theme of progress. Toward the end of the second day, however, the room was unaccountably filled with spectators, and the applauding throng seemed to have saved the ruling Socialists from a public relations disaster. But relief turned to embarrassment when it was learned that more than 100 members of the crowd had been paid $63 each...