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The oversight is not the result of an effort to avoid downbeat or offensive sides of Degas, but rather a failure to understand the seismic shift in French society caused by "l'affaire ." Photography and French nationalism were also linked in Degas' mind.
Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.
A Magazine About Nothing: There's plenty of buckshot being sprayed at Lynn Hirschberg and Vanity Fair in the wake of l'affaire Seinfeld , in which the sitcom icon obtained a pre-publication copy of a VF story being written about him.
Others say its humor is tame compared with the reality of l'affaire Lewinsky . "While news is getting more entertaining, entertainment is becoming more toothless than ever" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (NBC plugs the show here.)
Lingering question from l'affaire Lawrence for assignment editors: Why not do a story about how Lawrence came to seize upon the Bushnell sinking as the fabric for his fiction?