Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD SQUARE The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie 3:05, 6:25, 9:50 Walkabout...
...Uncle Antoine. An outstanding French-Canadian film, directed by Claude Jutra, which shows a great deal of ingenuity. 1972. (Reviewed tomorrow) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. From the first scene of his first film (the surrealist Un Chien Andalou, 1928) Luis Bunuel has shocked -- even attacked -- his audience. He continues to surprise in this latest film, but by playfulness. Bunuel manipulates a half-dozen engaging characters in an ironic world of distorted time and confused identity, creating a witty and eloquent phantasma. Bunuel has become an aesthete, but he retains his expressiveness. At age seventy-two, he has become...
...White House staff where he was considered to be so loyal that he was picked to check up on the loyalty of other staffers. A first-rate organizer, he was named deputy director of C.R.P. by John Mitchell. Occasionally, friends recall, a streak of zealotry marred his surface charm. Nixon, he used to say, must be re-elected "at all costs...
...lecturer who also taught at Seton Hall and Colorado State, Lombardi is content in Saigon. "There's a feeling of complete freedom here," he says. "A man with a little money in his pocket can do anything-smoke opium, sleep with three girls, meet interesting people. The subtle charm of Saigon is not to be denied...
...BOOK OF NUMBERS has a raucous, picaresque, raunchy kind of charm, at least initially. Two black con men (Raymond St. Jacques and Philip Thomas) descend on an Arkansas town called El Dorado during the early '30s to start a numbers bank. Thomas has a rather meandering love affair with a "high yellow" woman (Freda Payne), leaving him little time to help St. Jacques fight off racist law officers and greedy white gangsters. St. Jacques, who also directed, works in some nice period feeling and a couple of quick, glancing social asides about the daily indignities of being black. After...