Word: saxon
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...sell to the coop are going to disappear," says Laurent Vaillé, owner of La Grange des Pères. "Mondavi was their last chance, the only thing that was going to help the coop stay alive. Mondavi would have shone a spotlight on Languedoc throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. There's no one else in the region who could do that." By opting for splendid isolation, Aniane may have left a golden opportunity to die upon the vine...
French film director François Truffaut once said that English filmmaking was a contradiction in terms. The Brits have been saying the same thing about French pop music for decades. For the discerning Anglo-Saxon music lover, the country that gave the world Jean-Michel Jarre's po-faced pomposity and the embarrassing histrionics of paunchy, ageing rocker Johnny Hallyday had an awful lot to answer...
...Modestly, Dunckel and Godin attribute their success to the decline of Anglo-Saxon pop into sterile nostalgia and carbon-copy teen acts. Like true Frenchmen, they cultivate a certain rebelliousness in the face of music business orthodoxy. "The entire industry has stopped taking risks," Dunckel complains. "The record companies are just delivering product to radio stations. But the current French scene is coming from home studios and that's what keeps it free and fresh. The big business music generated by record companies has been swept aside...
www.aknightstale.com LOOK ESPN meets Monty Python TIME WASTER Puncture fellow slackers in the online tournament that already has 11,000 players. Take that, Saxon dog! OVERALL MERIT Better than Doom, dude...
...foster resilience and self-esteem in children. Having been on the receiving end of bullying when I was in high school in the '60s, I can understand what little boys sometimes have to endure. I was puny, wore glasses and had a very strange surname in an Anglo-Saxon environment. Prime target! But my parents helped me develop self-respect. I became a competent tennis player and cross-country runner and a good skier. As for bullies, they should be encouraged to become more effective leaders. They generally have the needed qualities; it is just a question of direction. ROBERT...