Word: chers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald Clarke's Essay charges Marshal Ney with responsibility for Napoleon's debacle at Waterloo. Surely the blame should go to the dilatory and unfortunate Marshal Grouchy for his failure to intercept Blücher's Prussians, and not to the intrepid Ney, who on the contrary, attacked Wellington two hours ahead of time...
...Napoleon was sure that the French General Staff had failed him. Sergei Bondarchuk has another idea. Though the English and French exchanged considerable fire and shed small oceans of blood, they had very little to do with the outcome. The beau stratagem was performed by old General Blücher and his vindictive Prussians. They and they alone are responsible for the outcome in Waterloo, or, as its subtitle might read, History Revised for Anglophobes...
Guinness had the genius to reproduce the stutter in Charles' speech which proved such a debility to the King in public life and, generally, to convey the reticence of a man denounced as tyrant but more suited for his private roles as art collector and cher papa. Harris, on the other hand, was put in the unfortunate quandary of acting out destinies both historically inaccurate and dramatically unconvincing. If I were discussing Garbo's Queen Christina, the license so common in historical romance could be admitted to extenuate glaring inaccuracies in terms of fact. But anyone who sits through...
...cher ami, at last you are here," said French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann as he spotted his British counterpart, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Luxembourg's glass-sheathed Centre Européen. "I'm glad to see you!" Did Schumann's government share that feeling? That was the critical question last week as the foreign ministers of Europe's six Common Market nations greeted the delegates from the four hopeful applicants-Ireland, Norway and Denmark as well as Britain...