Word: alain
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...Oncle d'Amérique. Screenwriter Jean Gruault and Director Alain Resnais have devised a lecture on human behavior that is also a delightful comedy of manners. Demands and rewards intelligence. Take notes, and enjoy...
After Le Monde cast doubts on the legality of these moves, Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte ordered charges brought against Editor Fauvet and Chief Editorial Writer Philippe Boucher under an obscure 1958 law that protects the legal system from "acts, words or writings" that may undermine the authority or independence of the judiciary. The penalty if convicted: up to six months in jail. Two of France's principal judicial associations promptly took the journalists' side. One magistrate noted that he felt "better defended by a free press." A number of French publications, including Hersant's usually approving France...
...ONCLE D'AMERIQUE Directed by Alain Resnais Screenplay by Jean Gruault...
...Gruault, who has written some of the finest and most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...statement from Alain Peyrefitte, the French Minister of Justice, Riesman was hailed as "a great thinker." The statement concludes: "He has had a profound influence on the academic world. More than anyone else, he has contributed to the dissemination of Tocqueville's philosophy...