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What holds one's interest in The French Atlantic Affair is the exuberant fraudulence of its every frame. Locations as far apart as Paris and Taos appear to be in the same time zone. The Festivale, though described as "very chic, very in, very high style," looks like a floating Ramada Inn. The script is a graveyard of unintentional boners. In one particularly cross moment, Savalas snarls, "Am I a fool? Do you think I talk just to hear my head rattle?" In this sweeps extravaganza, such questions are invariably -and giddily- rhetorical...
...they are." There's a feebly executed but well-meaning attempt to create coffee-house atmosphere--the audience trades its ticket stubs during intermission for a cup of coffee and a croissant--but the floodlit cavernous Leverett dining hall offers little in the way of bohemian squalor or continental chic...
Nevertheless, organizing students seems to be a more difficult process these days. The labels on jeans have changed from Levi to Klein and t-shirts have been replaced by Gloria Vanderbuilt blouses. It seems that activism is not as "chic" as it was ten years ago and perhaps we should be thankful that the regressive 1970's will be over in a few months. Historically, every even numbered decade has been a progressive one.....let us see what the '80s will bring...
...time, will the city in the future seek any alternative at all? The nature of Boston and its voters is changing. Since White has been mayor, and particularly over the past four years, the city's self-esteem has skyrocketed. Boston has become a model for urban living--ophisticated, chic, expensive and drawing new residents faster than the Larry Bird Celtics are drawing new fans...
When Henry Kissinger dismisses the deals of the Viet Nam War protesters as 'stimulated by a sense of guilt encouraged by modern psychiatry and the radical chic rhetoric of affluent suburbia," he is forgetting the thousands of Viet Nam vets who joined those ranks upon their return home. As to his statement that we could not end the war "as if we were switching a television channel," the protest movement's apt response was that we saw no sense in continuing an unfounded horror show switched on by others...