Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Cecile Sorel, 92, French actress, who reigned as queen of the Comédie Francaise for 32 years (1901-33), made an abrupt switch at 60 to the music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...calls this Imperial "a traveling board room." The sporty Barracuda, which had been hurriedly fashioned out of a Valiant base in an effort to meet the challenge of Ford's Mustang, sold badly last year. This year Barracuda's fastback has been modified with a 'more abrupt slope (the long, tapering fast-backs are on the way out in Detroit), the back of the car has a sportier slab look, and air vents (false) have been added to the hood...
...when Anouk and Jean-Louis go to bed for the first time. Will she forget her old love for the sake of the new? Trying to answer the question, Director Claude Lelouch, 28, composes some stylish scenes and tosses in enough cinematic tricks borrowed from older New Wave directors-abrupt switches from black-and-white to color, for example-to have won this year's Cannes Festival Grand Prix. But his does-she-or-doesn't-she story, banal to begin with, sounds like nothing so much as an existentialist "Dear Abby" column in which sentiment has melted...
...depiction of this shift in Miguelin's psyche comes slowly and subtlely, in contrast with the incomparable boldness which Rosi exercises in the style of this film. Amazingly abrupt shifts of scene, striking colors, and entirely straightforward dialogue often make you wonder how the director manages to maintain the dramatic interest to well...
Today that very serious dialogue is difficult, oblique and garbled. It sometimes seems like a bad phone connection-full of static, elusive, abrupt, frustrating and almost hostile. U.S. playwrights have even cut the wire-for the moment they have nothing to say about either humanity or the human predicament. That poet of the violated heart, Tennessee Williams, may return to his best form at any time; meanwhile, he carries repetition to the edge of self-parody (The Mutilated) or attempts religious allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary...