Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles de Gaulle once described the French armed forces as "the rampart of order." Today that rampart looks as if it were part of a half-ruined fortress. Morale in the ranks is so low, warned General Alain de Boissieu in a top-secret report that leaked to the press last December, that an upheaval similar to the one that racked France in May 1968 could break out within the army. Even the professional cadre of officers, wrote Boissieu (who happens to be De Gaulle's son-in-law), "have lost confidence in the hierarchy...
...emigrate. Since early December, harassment of would-be emigres has intensified and the number of Jews allowed to leave has dropped to a four-year low (TIME, Jan. 20). But Moscow-based diplomats, and Israeli Sovietologists, were hopeful that the U.S.S.R. would not entirely halt emigration. Said Israeli Analyst Alain Guiney: "While the cancellation has undoubtedly worsened the situation of Soviet Jews, it should not be forgotten that the Soviets are still interested in an economic agreement with the U.S., and they are aware that if they ring down the emigration gates altogether they will...
...discovery of the ultimate turn-on. Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) is the wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok who encourages her to fall into any kind and combination of sexual escapades to fur ther her erotic education. He even urges her into the arms of an aging sybarite (Alain Cuny), who wows her with such metaphysical pronouncements as "True love is erection, not the orgasm...
Mary Beekman, organ. Music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Alain...
...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...