Word: clair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gates of Paris (Filmsonor; Lopert). Rene Clair is a moralist who never moralizes. In this picture, for instance, his moral is a weighty one. Evil is not evil, Clair says, if it does good; in real life the absolutes are relative. Yet the point is made lightly, and it hits home with benevolent accuracy...
...betimes, bustles about on mysterious errands. The quartier is delighted. The tavernkeeper's pretty daughter (Dany Carrel) invites the reconstructed wreck to a dance, and he begins to daydream about romance, riches, monograms on his shirts. And what is responsible for the change? A small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last I'm useful." Ah yes, Director Clair seems to sigh, the forces of law and order...
Last week the Republican big-weights had jockeyed themselves into position. At Fresno's amateur Democratic fling, there were few amateurs. The years had been a bitter education. Red-eyed, knowledgeable, and disillusioned, they nominated Pat Brown for governor--against William Knowland; and Congressman Clair Engle for senator--against "Goodie" Knight. They passed up Petter Odeguard (a Berkeley political science professor) and Richard Richards, and endorsed a ticket of warmed-over conservative vegetables to serve to the public in November...
...second stage of the project, the deepening of a channel in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks. Later, a work force of 800 to 1,000 will dredge the Straits of Mackinac channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, deepen the channels in the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. Total cost to the Federal Government: $136 million, more than has been spent on the Great Lakes connecting channels in the past 130 years...
...Clair de Lune. In Hartford, Conn., Clarence S. Grant, charged by police with breach of the peace, resisting arrest and lascivious carriage, pleaded "impaired awareness...