Word: clair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will find the film's dialogue not very difficult to comprehend, translated adequately by the subtitles (though, of course, without the many nuances which were important to the film) and, in general, much more fun than a language lab. Actually, though, much of the humor was wordless; director Rene Clair has not lost his touch for creating telling little dramas without dialogue (also without subtlety, as was most of the film...
...Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes a gay and warm and generous point about life itself: live it while you've got it because you only get it once...
Shut away in the Ritz-Carlton, Lerner fills Apartment 1004 with cigarette smoke and new lines for Camelot. Across the hall in another suite, his two-year-old son Michael listens to a phonograph not Lerner and Loewe, but Au Clair de la Lune. Up in 1204, Loewe ("Sir Aggravate," as Lerner nicknames him) broods under the fond eye of his current, 24-year-old girl friend; he calls her "baby boy," she calls him "baby bear." For hours each day, Lerner joins Loewe at the piano as they work together on four new songs, including one called The Seven...
...shadings as a guttering candle flame. Later in the week Richter offered programs including Haydn, Schumann, Debussy and Rachmaninoff, playing each one with the uncanny air of direct communication that he conveys better than any other pianist alive. Under Richter's hands, even Debussy's much-abused Clair de Lune looked like a new moon. Wrote an all-but-wordless critic, the New York Herald Tribune's Jay Harrison: "Uncanny. It has to be heard to be believed...
Unaware of his legal rights, Olson stayed in jail for twelve days without realizing that he could get out by paying $300 bail. Then to his rescue came Attorney Clair Hoehn, president of the school board in Gladstone, 40 miles from Thompson. "Ridiculous," said Hoehn, after reading The Stranger himself. "This boy just wanted his students to have some different reading than 'Run, Dick...