Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the humor, especially early on, is quite funny. When the characters first arrive in Paris, they seem as gauche as those prototypical U.S. tourists in Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. Joel (Miles Chapin), a preppie who has come to Europe to dress up his college transcript, stretches his rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim...
...Marie-France Pisier- only to become the butt of silly sex gags. Laura veers into a nervous breakdown that gratuitously breaks the movie's antic mood. Joel's romance with a snippy French girl (Val erie Quennessen) is a hotbed of cliches; it moves us only because Chapin's likable innocence contrasts so well with Quennessen's robust, Moreau-like sexuality...
...City. We were discussing what attitude Rockefeller should take toward a possible offer to join the Nixon Cabinet. We were interrupted by a telephone call. It was a poignant reminder of Rockefeller's frustrating career in national politics that the caller was Nixon's appointments secretary, Dwight Chapin, who was interrupting Rockefeller's strategy meeting to ask me-not Rockefeller-to meet with his chief...
...presented myself at 10 a.m. on Nov. 25, at the Nixon transition headquarters in the Pierre Hotel. I thought it likely that the President-elect wanted my views on the policy problems before him. Chapin took me to a large living room and told me that the President-elect would be with me soon. I did not know then that Nixon was painfully shy. Meeting new people filled him with vague dread, especially if they were in a position to rebuff or contradict him. As was his habit before such appointments, Nixon was probably in an adjoining room settling...
John Denver? Sol Linowitz? Thomas Wyman? President Carter's Commission on World Hunger [Oct. 16]? Bunk! It was Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who is also a member of this commission, who lobbied religiously for more than two years until the reticent Congress and White House finally agreed to its legal creation. If anyone is a prime mover in this effort...