Word: dani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Written by Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel and Suzanne Schiffman, the screenplay presents not so much a plot as an intermingling of the past with the present. His torrid, impossible liason with the leonine Liliane (Dani) mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen...
...outset a sleazy young dope dealer vainly attempts to hire Investigator Michael Brennen to locate blue-eyed Dani, his missing girlfriend and meal ticket. Brennen has just about decided to retire from the shamus game. However, when the dealer shows up mysteriously dead, the down-at-heels p.i. takes on the posthumous assignment. Dani, it develops, belongs to a wealthy Faulknerian family held together by booze, barbiturates, bitterness, incest and greed. Brennen finally finds the girl (also mysteriously dead) and discovers that the family business is being run by a homosexual Chinatown lawyer and his epicene "nephew." The nephew...
...motives of the Turkish government in sentencing Billy Hayes to life imprisonment. Nonetheless, I find it inadmissible to acclaim a movie which is so outrageously biased in its depiction of a whole nation. "Midnight Express" is offensive only not only to Turks, but to all self-respecting human beings. Dani Rodrik...
...Dani Kaufmann is a graduate student in economics at Harvard. He emigrated to Israel from Chile in 1970. His home is in Nethanya, north of Tel Aviv...
Heider has no idea why the Dani energy level is so low. The tribe seems to have a low infant-mortality rate, an adequate diet and no serious diseases. While a hidden genetic or biological factor may be responsible, Heider prefers to believe the Dani "low-energy system" is simply cultural. If so, Western theories about the innate power of the sexual drive-mostly derived from Freud-may need some adjustment...