Word: bourgeoise
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In this abrupt shift of mood, what began as a polished Gallic satire of bourgeois sex and morality suddenly becomes inflamed with black Spanish fury. Director Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana) is the powerful talent whose vision dominates this corrosive, meticulously detailed film based on the 1900...
Sir: La Moreau, the "Jeanne d'Arc of the boudoir"? Why not the "aardvark of the bourgeois"?
Since genius, like a celebrity, commands recognition even in dark glasses, all of this is present, if not clear, in the Lincoln Center production. The man who exists to be brought to his senses in Tartuffe is Orgon (Larry Gates), a complacently typical bourgeois. Orgon courts innocence by association, and...
Ever since they met as students at the Sorbonne, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, 59, and Novelist Simone de Beauvoir, 57, have been constant companions, though they deliberately refrained from becoming enmeshed in the bourgeois snare of matrimony. But now a little one is on the way-sort of. Sartre is...
And that's only the beginning. What has happened to all the blathering broadsides Russian movies used to fire off at the decadent, bourgeois societies of the West? In Nine Days, the intellectual and managerial echelons of Soviet society are frankly bourgeois in character. These people look, talk, act...