French Magazine: MAGAZINES GIVE YULE DECORATIONS A FOREIGN WRINKLE
If you've glanced at any magazine stand lately, you've noticed the number of publications devoted to the holidays.According to the covers, they're packed with the latest ideas for gifts, menus and decor. Usually a number of pages feature inventive ways to decorate Christmas trees. But nothing I've seen in American magazines equals the fanciful Christmas trees featured in European magazines. Borders Bookstore and Pic-a- book both carry...
French Magazine: LOCAL NEW ENGL
Chereau seconds this opinion. "There is no perfect unity in the Ring," he says. "It is a unity of discrepancies. And it is these discrepancies - between Wagner's philosophical ideas and the evolution of his characters - that interests me." So rather than reduce the Ring to an abstraction, Chereau piles up details. He wants us to remember what has happened in world history, in Bayreuth history, since Wagner wrote the tetralogy....
French magazine flips out over Utah
SALT LAKE CITY - Utah residents are used to being called backward - but not upside down. An eight-page spread in the French magazine Le Figaro included glowing accounts, pictures of breathtaking scenery and a map that turned the Beehive State upside down and placed Idaho and Wyoming within its borders."I've heard people tell us before we're backward, but not upside down," laughed Fred Ball, president of the Salt Lake Area Chamber of...
French Magazine: The Guardian: Uefa Cup: Venables reads riot act and adds gag: Dacourt fined as Leeds manager takes desperate action, writes Daniel Taylor
Terry Venables resorted to desperate measures to save his job yesterday, unleashing his frustrations in an acrimonious showdown with his players. The Leeds manager informed Olivier Dacourt he would be fined pounds 40,000 for making disparaging remarks about the club in a French magazine and a temporary ban has been imposed on anyone speaking to the media.Although Leeds have tried to keep the matter in-house, the Guardian has learned that Venables has taken what will be seen as a huge...
French Magazine: Roger Therond, 76, pioneer in European photojournalism
Roger Therond, who turned French magazine Paris Match into one of the world's finest outlets for photojournalism, died Saturday. He was 76. No cause of death was given. Therond joined Paris Match in 1949, moving up the ranks until he became director and editor-in- chief in 1976. During his 50-year career, he was known for having an eye for picking breathtaking photos. Therond's first journalism experience was as a film critic with the French magazine...