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...Paris. When people at work ask where I live, I say "the 7th instead of "Rue St. Paul." I stand up in the metro at all times. and when I want to get off I push people and mutter "pardon" and act annoyed. I have learned to say "merct" when in doubt. My maitre d'hotel understands that I do not eat breakfast...
This one has everything: sex, violence, comedy, thrills, tenderness. It's an anthology and apotheosis of American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good...
...guilt-strained nerve in France, which has a history of anti-Semitism stretching back to the Enlightenment and including a virulent flare-up during the Depression. Still painful are memories of the German Occupation, when the Vichy regime helped the Nazis send 85,000 Jews to death camps. Rue Copernic made Frenchmen wonder whether violence was once again becoming a factor in their political life, especially since it closely followed explosions set off by right-wing terrorists at the Bologna train station (84 dead, 160 injured) and Munich's Oktoberfest (13 dead, 215 injured). Conditions certainly seemed right...
...assailed for callously leaving Paris on a private weekend the night of the tragedy. Premier Raymond Barre made matters worse for the government when he carelessly told a television interviewer that the bomb was "aimed at Jews worshiping in a synagogue, but struck four innocent Frenchmen who crossed the Rue Copernic." Without meaning to, Barre had implied that the Jews inside were neither completely French nor completely innocent...
...Rue Copernic bombing was the clearest indication yet that neofascism and anti-Semitism were testing French society. In the week before the explosion, two synagogues and two Hebrew schools in Paris were machine-gunned. On the day of the huge protest march through Paris, thugs tried to bomb a Jewish-owned grocery store in Grenoble and bar in Marseille, and attacked dozens of Jewish stores and homes in the countryside. Says Historian Pascal Ory, a specialist on the French right: "The new generation does not have firsthand memories of the failure of Nazism. They can romanticize it today...