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  • I Am Interrupting This Serious Conversation ...


    ...in order to bring you this Barbara Walters interview with Carla Bruni , which is possibly the most sexist piece of television programming I've ever seen—and I'm not overly sensitive about these things. I have a weird soft spot for Barbara Walters—she Read More...
  • Speaking of Nude Women ...


    Christie's New York will be auctioning a naked portrait of the French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, on April 10. I'm no prude, I'm certainly not a Victorian , and I commend the French for turning a blind eye to their politicians' private lives, but Read More...
  • Puff This ...


    Were you just being provocative, Emily ? Describing a best-case abortion as nothing more than "a few not ideal hours'' makes it sound like an afternoon at the DMV without a good book. And aren't you being just as categorical as you say Caitlin Flanagan Read More...
  • re: Vive La France


    Emily, So glad you brought up the love affair between Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. It's pretty much a de rigeur topic of conversation in European capitals at the moment, but I daren't mention it too much on an American Web site, during the all-too-serious Read More...
  • Vive La France!


    When this blog started in October, Anne Applebaum wrote of how the Nicolas and Cecilia Sarkozy, France's president and first lady, could be a model for American political couples. She had her own life, did not help him campaign, and no one in France seemed Read More...
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