Word: azure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more investigations. In Viet Nam, as in Laos and Cambodia, the ICC was constantly broke. In Saigon, its rickety Citroëns with their tattered ICC flags had become mobile monuments. At one point this year, the ICC in Viet Nam was so badly squeezed for funds that Aigle Azur, the French air charter that provides the battered, ancient Boeing 307 Stratoliners for the weekly commission flights linking Saigon, Pnompenh, Vientiane and Hanoi, refused further fly-now, pay-later trips...
...Claude Rich as a womanizer who smirks curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror. Another director might have made the balcony scene an urban one; Truffaut stages it along the Côte d'Azur, where Photographer Raoul Coutard makes the outside beckon like a Cezanne landscape. Even a minute role played by a little boy is observed with special insight. When Moreau puts on glasses and tries to con the boy into accepting her as his teacher, he reacts with an air of whimsical gamesmanship...
...into their harbor on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Individual Americans are pointedly dropping France from their holiday tours, and some are refusing to fly Air France. For the first time, U.S. visitors to Britain in 1967 outnumbered tourists to France-by 100,000. Cote d'Azur hotel owners complained of a 20% slump in reservations last summer. Lately there have been some cancellations by American Jews incensed by De Gaulle's chutzpah. At Sage's Chicago restaurants, notices urge customers not to buy French wines. California wine growers are enjoying a record year...
Spaak's dream of a true European community has not come true. But Mr. Europe has not given up hope yet. He plans to leave Belgium and install himself on the Côte d'Azur, where he can pamper his painful gout and at the same time finish his memoirs. "Luxury, today, is solitude and silence," he said last week. To which the Brussels news paper La Libre Belgique had a typically Spaakian reply. "Solitude, maybe," said the paper. "But silence? We doubt...
...Europe and get him. Bring me his head. I want to give it to my wife." In the process, Delon is slugged, flung into a scalding tub, shot at, almost drowned, and nearly run down during a mad chase along the Cōte d'Azur...