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"In America, seduction is dishonest"

Marketing guru Clotaire Rapaille explains why Americans invented fast food and fast sex -- while the French, despite their cultural "senility," know how to savor their adulterous liaisons.
By Laura Miller

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  • Monday, May 22, 2006 01:32 PM

    Refrigerator=Morgue?

    Do the French own refrigerators? By Rapaille's logic (as quoted below) they must hate and fear whatever it is that they put in their refrigators. Unless they only use them to store things that are indisputably dead. Like, say, rocks.

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