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Secret of Success. Vollard was a bizarre figure: no wonder other dealers saw him as a métèque, an interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little...
Pierre, the main character in Pas si Mechant que ca (or The Wonderful Crook as its American promoters have inadequately dubbed it) looks strong, clumsy and dumb--like the stereotypical college football star. The opening sequences of the film cut from a shot of Pierre armwrestling with his fellow workers to one of the boss yelling because Pierre is "always playing around" and has lacquered a board that should have remained natural. So, when the foreman calls for Pierre we expect he will be reprimanded and find out instead that the boss is, in fact, Pierre's father, and that...
Doug Risebrough, out of Guelph, Ont., is a gifted center who rooms with Mario Tremblay, from Alma, Que. "Our team is about half French," he says, "and people from the media sometimes look for strains. But there aren't any Election night you heard some jokes. The Anglos were through here. The next day we'd have to play for Ottawa. Jokes were all these were. I mean the record sort of indicates that we get along...
...Atlantic are doomed to failure-as even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing must know in his heart of hearts. A few days after signing the linguistic law, France's President was chatting to a group of journalists at the Elysée Palace. "Ce que je vais dire," he warned, "est off the record...
...deluxe, 200-room Bavarian-style inn in his native Tittling. There, at prices ranging up to $40 a day, Rotel veterans who have seen the world from the windows of Holtl's buses may come to relax, sail in his man-made lake, dance in his discothèque and eat hearty Bavarian food that does not come...