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 | | The Marche des Beurs was organized from Lyon's horrific, enormous suburban high-rise ghetto, Les Minguettes (right), with the help of a charismatic left-wing French Catholic worker-priest, Father Christian Delorme, and its central theme was the demand to be recognized as French "comme les autres" --- like everyone else.... |
 | | "Sarko" made headlines with his declarations that he would "karcherise" the ghettos of "la racaille"-- words the U.S. press, with glaring inadequaxcy, has translated to mean "clean" the ghettos of "scum." But these two words have an infinitely harsher and insulting flavor in French. |
 | | Pasolini was a hugely influential polymath of postwar Italian culture — although many outside of Italy know him only as a brilliant, idiosyncratic filmmaker, he was also the greatest Italian poet of his generation, as well as a novelist, playwright, literary critic, political columnist and painter, who frequently celebrated homosexuality in his writings and films. |
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