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That is what the world of haute cuisine also renders unto Bocuse. In a field cluttered with large egos, his rivals call him their chef de file (party leader). Says Alain Chapel, one of this year's new three-star men: "He was shaking the coconut tree while the rest of us were still learning basics." Actually, Bocuse and his mentor, the late Fernand Point, were shaking the tradition of Escoffier, who personified the elaborate approach that many foreigners think of as being the whole of French cooking. Says Jean Didier of the Guide Kleber: "If Point...
...followers, Charles de Gaulle was nothing less than "twice the savior of his country," and even today the Gaullists are reluctant to entrust the telling of the precious legend to anyone who might tamper with it. Nobody knows this better than French Film Makers Alain de Sédouy and André Harris, who (along with Director Marcel Ophuls) collaborated in 1969 on the superb documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, an exhaustive and exhausting (4½-hour-long) study of a French city under the Nazi Occupation (TIME, March...
...first-round voting. When the results showed the Gaullists and their allies trailing in the popular vote tally by an expected but still humiliating eight percentage points, government spokesmen began sounding unaccustomed notes of understanding and humility. "The vote of the French is like a warning shot," said Alain Peyrefitte, leader of the Gaullist U.D.R. party, shortly before this week's balloting. "We will know how to interpret their wishes...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH. "One Week" by Buster Keaton, "Bondu Saved from Drowning" by Jean Renoir, March 1, 7:30, $1, Far From Vietnam, edited by Chris Marker from footage given to him by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Renais, Agnes Varda, Joris Iven, and other, March 4, 7:30, free-sponsored by Institute of Politics. "The Boat" by Buster Keaton (1921), "Toni," by Jean Renoir (1935), March...
MEMORIAL CHURCH. John Ferris, University Organist. Works by Bach, Mozart, Alain, Walther, and Janacek. Free...