Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a pimpled schoolboy tussling for kisses in the cloakroom. Famed for his ability to guide young actresses from obscurity to nudity, Vadim usually displays them backside up amidst a pile of sheets. In Circle, with five lissome beauties at his disposal (Fonda, Catherine Spaak, Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Marie Dubois), he simply varies the routine with a good deal of explicit groping, button tugging and lifting of skirts...
...rakish owner of a Montmartre restaurant called La Cloche d'Or, popular in the '20s with the show-business crowd. Her mother, an English dancer named Kathleen Buckley, had come to Paris at the age of 17 to dance with the Tiller Girls at the Folies-Bergére. She met Anatole at the restaurant, and they were married when she was 20. The Moreau family, descended from a long line of farmers, never quite welcomed her into the fold. Jeanne was born in Paris in 1928, and a few years later the family moved south to Vichy...
...they were thrown to the floor and heard that horrifying dissonance-unmistakable to anyone-that means a collision at sea. On the Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo of vegetable oil, Seaman Sverre Thun-berg, 19, was jolted awake by that same sound, looked down from his bunk and saw sea water rising fast beneath him; Thunberg grabbed his toothbrush and razor, raced above decks and leaped into a lifeboat, even then being lowered over the side...
...assembled chamber orchestra of his very own, unlimited rehearsal time and, most important, a program of his own choice. The result was a treat worth the waiting. In five concerts at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall this month, with the accent on works of "special interest" from Bach to Berg, Scherchen displayed an attack that was clean, intense and boldly original. He braked tempos to the creeping point, intertwining each contrapuntal strand with meticulous care, then revved up the fast movements until the musicians were fairly bouncing off their chairs. To critics' charges that some interpretations were flawed...
Vowing to change all that in short order or else resign, Auric started boldly by scheduling Alban Berg's fiercely modern Wozzeck. "If I am not able to mount this production," he declared, "I will know that nothing can be done for the National Opera here." He demanded an unprecedented 35 rehearsals, grappled successfully with eleven labor unions (guardians of the Opera's bloated staff of 1,100, including 95 stagehands, 35 firemen, 32 electricians, 30 wardrobe mistresses), but still lacked funds for his crash program...