Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Airports throughout the world get an International Airport Transport Association (IATA)code: those three-letter codes you see as you make plane reservations and printed on your baggage tags.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Short write-ups, an American perspective, family activities, and French vocabulary and culture. This is what Kristin Espinasse from Arizona offers in her blog essays at <French-word-a-day.com> . If I were a Francophile, I’d be eating this up. If I were a French teacher, I’d be assigning this. If I were planning a trip to France, I’d […]
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Sunday, September 9, 2007
Maybe I’ll bring back fierce anecdotes from my trip to France. Like the woman sitting next to me at Color My Nails did. Overhearing my travel plans, she fell right into her routine, something she’s probably repeated many times, saying, “So I told this waiter in Paris who’d been so mean to us, I said, ‘Well, if […]
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
In a few days I will fly to Paris, as much for me as for many of my friends, a statement and a dream as well as a journey. Memory Paris, dream Paris, pastry-and-coffee Paris, the ache Paris, Piaf Paris, Hemingway Paris, painting Paris. All-balled-into-my-image-of-my-romantic-self Paris. Kerouac Paris, Modigliani, Picasso, Somerset Maugham, Muslim riots, Les Miz, JFK-and-Jackie Paris. Sitting at a cafe, […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Written July 2003 The works of Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, and Claude Monet reflected French social, political, and economic conditions as well as artistic breakthroughs in the nineteenth century Realism and Impressionist movements. As the upper classes were attempting to stay in control and only valued art done in the academic tradition, these three painters […]
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
An Italian-American’s portrayal of the Anglo-Spaniard adopted by an Arab sheik in two silent movies may yet still provide many Americans with vivid, romantic, and ridiculous images of Arab men Rudolph Valentino still colors the American myth of the Arabian man. I might not have believed this if I hadn’t heard this myth spouted from […]
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