Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...
...movies real strength lies lies in its acting. Yves Montand, as Graziani, endures insults with rheumy resignation and maintains a respect for his fellow men even when he can no longer stand to be polite to them. Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, as the fading actress, establishes the aura of attractive pathos that has become her trademark. And their daughter, Catherine Allegret, who plays the young girl, is a charming exemplar of wholesome patience and competence...
After this carnage, and after legislative reapportionment, most of the large states were left with Republican governors and Democratic legislatures. These legislatures now vote high budgets for education and welfare (while welfare costs have risen very slowly), and the governors, influenced by the liberal aura of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, dutifully sign them into...
...line in the last election: of 276 COPE-backed candidates elected to Congress, only 17 were Republicans. Labor's political experts are paying particular attention to the reelection of 51 Democratic freshmen, most of them from swing districts that were won in the L.B.J. landslide. To preserve some aura of bipartisanship, COPE is expected to bestow its benediction on three old Republican Senate friends: New Jersey's Clifford Case, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
...victim of his own tactic. Yet konfrontasi is just what Sukarno is experiencing at the hands of Indonesia's new triumvirate, headed by Army Lieut. General Suharto. The triumvirate still feels that Sukarno is too powerful to be openly challenged, but it is systematically reducing the aura that once surrounded him. Last week the aging (65) dictator could not pick up a newspaper, or even glance from the windows of Merdeka Palace without being exposed to new evidence that his policies were being reversed, his pet construction projects shelved, his confidants jailed, and his own reputation openly attacked...