Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filling the store's main buildings. The Coop, founded in 1882 to provide students with an alternative to the price-gouging of the Square's merchants, began to act like a department store, complete with men's department, ladies department, house waves department, and apartment department. Even a Beau Coup for the well-to-do swinger, although its prices are lower that Krackerjacks. The Coop was slowly becoming all things to all people...
Just recently she acquired her first steady beau, Seth Morgan, 21, an affluent Easterner from Blue Hill, Me., who thrilled Janis by, among other things, paying the dinner checks she always used to have to pick up herself, even when in a crowd. To her friends, she talked casually of the possibility of marriage. Her new back-up group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, had got excellent notices on a coast-to-coast tour last summer. Recording sessions for Columbia-six-day-a-week affairs, often running from 2 p.m. to midnight-had been going well. Out of ten songs...
...they cannot sell. Because he has gambled so heavily and because the industry stands to lose so much, Fairchild could not emerge from a defeat of the midi without suffering heavy losses himself. His response to that peril is about as close as Seventh Avenue ever comes to a beau geste: "I suppose we could have taken a much calmer approach to the Longuette, but that isn't our style. We approach everything like a tiger...
...plot creaks around a 29-year-old rich kid named Elgar (Beau Bridges) who buys himself a tenement in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. His elaborate renovation plans change abruptly when he meets his new tenants, including a black free-school teacher (Melvin Stewart), a former Miss Sepia (Diana Sands), her eight-year-old son (Douglas Grant) and slightly deranged husband (Louis Gosset), and a worldly-wise den mother (Pearl Bailey) who feeds Elgar soul food and introduces him around. Friendships form fast. Elgar falls in love with a black painter and part-time go-go dancer (Marki...
...however, some remarkable performances in The Landlord. Lee Grant and Bob Klein, as two members of Elgar's family, act with closely calculated wit and an eye for the tellingly ludicrous gesture. Diana Sands is lithe and musky as the former Miss Sepia. Best of all, though, is Beau Bridges. His peppy performance ranges widely between antic comedy and tough melodrama. He handles both with equal facility, as well as the subtler shadings in between. He is surely one of the very best young actors in films today, good enough to make The Landlord worth seeing. That in itself...