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Light, whimsical, diverting on the surface, this sleek recreation by François Truffaut is deceptively sweet-like a fondant filled with vitriol. The gorgeous kid of the title is Camille Bliss (BernadetteLafont), another of the coyly annihilating heroines who have haunted Truffaut's work since the incomparable Jules and Jim (1961). These women tease men, taunt them, stalk them, until, as in The Mississippi Mermaid (1969), and as here, the men are so enmeshed in their own obsession that they become grateful, impassioned prisoners...
...unusual collaboration was firmly joined in 1968 when Chicago Tribune Reporter George Bliss became a member of the BGA staff. He later returned to the Tribune, but Brunner, who arrived in 1971, has maintained and strengthened the alliance. As a result, the BGA, rather somnolent for most of its 50 years, now has influence out of all proportion to its membership (1,400) and its annual budget ($200,000). Brunner himself is something of a crusader. He is fond of stopping in midsentence, pounding his desk and exclaiming: "Damn it, people shouldn't take bribes!" Not the least...
...structural familiarity spreads itself into the story. Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), thoroughly resistable convict, is the subject of a sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed...
...BLISS ATTRIBUTES much of the organization's success to the soundness of Bunting's original vision. Though E4A's outlook on the world always changes, it was originally founded, Bliss feels, on a principle of social initiative which underlies the students' own philosophy and the success of E4A's projects. Bliss also believes that the commitment of Presidents Hunting and Horner to E4A has been instrumental in facilitating the group's own creative energies...
...activities. E4A doesn't measure success in literal terms by measuring final achievements against a project's original goals, Dudley said. Rather, E4A asks if the individual involved has personally grown in awareness and whether, in some measure, the projects have contributed to social change. E4A, according to Bliss, is oriented to meeting the needs of people-people in the University and people in the communities which students hope to serve...