Word: cocteau
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...example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated by typewriter sounds, gunshots and tidbits of ragtime...
...bill for this suit." Rejoined Sylvia: "It'll be the first time it's been cleaned." Fellow actors planned to organize a Sylvia Miles defense fund to pay Simon's cleaning bill -but on one condition. That Miles repeats the performance once a week. ∙ Jean Cocteau said she had the head of a little black swan. "And," added Colette, "the heart of a little black bull." Caustic Couturière Coco Chanel, however, always had the last insult ("Colette preferred two grilled sausages to love; Cocteau was well bred. He had no talent, so he listened...
...cinema; of a heart attack; in Paris. Melville changed his name from Grumbach in honor of the American novelist Herman Melville, sported a cowboy hat, and was celebrated for his Gallic exercises in gangster melodramas. His best-known film, Les Enfants Terribles (1948), was made in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, author of the novel...
...have given my life to St. Thomas, and labor to spread his doctrine. For I, too, want intelligence to be taken from the Devil and returned to God." So wrote Philosopher Jacques Maritain to Poet Jean Cocteau 47 years ago. And when Maritain died on April 28, at the age of 90, no modern Roman Catholic had done more than this French layman to make the mind a subtly flashing sword in the defense of faith...
...South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue...