Word: broca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Margot Kidder, 34, outspoken Canadian actress who soared to fame as Lois Lane in the Superman movie series; and Philippe de Broca, 50, French film director who made the 1966 cult classic King of Hearts; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vert, France...
MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
...interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca, Randolph Kirkpatrick, and Thomas Henry Huxley...
starring Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Annie Girardot and Lila Kedrova; written by Philippe de Broca and Alexandre Mnouchkine; directed by de Broca...
Practice is a comedy-romance-farce-drama, a stringing together (better for pearls than for movies) that looks like a bargain but amounts to thinness in all departments (hyphenated-genre films typically try for multiple effects and end up delivering none). But de Broca (King of Hearts, Dear Inspector) overcomes this structural weakness by focusing on important and abiding human concerns -- fear of aging, jealousy, hypocrisy, sexual morality, and the value of love and family. The somewhat contrived plot is ultimately less important than the mood, which is wonderfully wistful and lyrical...