Tag Archives: Carla Bruni

welcome to the jungle

So, they win an award. The public relations of the right-wing agenda in Colombia. What agenda? The neo-liberal economic model, the 1%-99% story that been prevalent over the last generation. Its the primacy of business.Open the highway to the Amazon, … Continue reading

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sarko for supper: the dinner game

Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dinner Games. Though in some respects Sarkozy does recall Louis de Funes and the comic posturing, the ideal context in which to place the French leader would be Francois Weber’s Le Diner des Cons. Sarkozy is … Continue reading

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the republic on the flying trapeze

the relation of Nicolas Sarkozy with high culture has usually been ambivalent, or aggressively indifferent. the “President Bling-Bling” as the snickering and smug detractors of his cultural legacy like to point out, is hardly in the tradition of France’s past. … Continue reading

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Lascaux and intimate with the gods:backstage pass only

The artists or artists who painted the cave at Lascaux in France deserves nearly all the artistic praise he has received. He, or perhaps she, was both knowledgeable and gifted. On the surface, he appeared to have one distressing weakness, … Continue reading

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THE MEN WITH A THORN IN THEIR SIDE

”… about the boom in political satire in France. On that subject, you might remember how Stéphane Guillon, Sarko’s imitator on France-Inter radio, upset the president with his impertinence.As predicted here, Sarkozy has just made it known that he wants … Continue reading

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MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

”Paris est si petit pour les gens  gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading

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PIPSQUEAKS & POLITICAL GEEKS

”New research published in the journal “Evolution and Human Behavior” concluded that short men tend to be more jealous. Why anyone chose to research this topic I have no idea. But what bugs me is the immediate relationship between the … Continue reading

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