Word: armand
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...shouldn?t there be a place in the canon of epic films for a story about a man trying to keep his dying beloved alive? Kids, who think they?ll live forever, might not hook up to this trope, but adults should. They?ve certainly seen it before: Armand trying to breathe life into the dying Marguerite Gautier, or Romeo trying to shake the poison out of Juliet, or Isolde going operatic over Tristan. The Fountain is essentially a classic deathbed scene, at feature length and sustained intensity...
That take-charge attitude was modern but not feminist. Garbo didn't represent a different sex from men. She was a different species, an emissary from a higher world of thought and feeling. In her one indisputably great film, Camille, she bestows love on the youthful Armand (Robert Taylor) as a gift from the gods; and, with her anguished, rapturous death, she leaves it with him. Her performance raises melodrama to a feature-length epiphany. No actress today could play a courtesan's self-sacrifice at such a high and perfect pitch. None would dare...
Fitzpatrick may have wanted to be first in the door, but Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a promoter of Soviet-American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned...
...June 27, 1993, he was asked by his superior, Major-General Armand Roy, whether he could deploy overseas to lead a United Nations peacekeeping mission to the nation of Rwanda...
...down, forgetting for a second to give his toast. In Palm Beach, Fla., on the last leg of the Waleses' four-day visit, Charles' team stylishly won an exhibition polo match, but later at a $5,000-a-head charity ball for United World Colleges arranged by Oil Tycoon Armand Hammer, there were some tacky touches. Those who paid an extra $20,000 got to stand with the royal couple for a souvenir snapshot. The local Establishment snubbed the do, partly because Russophile Hammer and his nonlocal charity were considered not the right sort. Still, the audiences of royal freaks...