Word: dauphins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meaningless & Poignant. Inevitably, De Gaulle's political enemies sought to use the disorders as an excuse to bring down the government of his hand-picked Premier, Georges Pompidou, 56, who more and more was acting and speaking like a dauphin in the crisis. Both the Communists, France's second largest party after De Gaulle's own U.N.R., and the Federation of the Left, led by Francois Mitterrand, tabled a joint censure motion in the National Assembly...
...theatrical problem of St. Joan is an immense credibility gap. At the heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...stage and movie versions or the mystical intensity of Julie Harris in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. She settled instead for her own ability to move between ingenuous youth and wide-eyed fanaticism as the script demanded. The sight and sound of her snapping the weakling Dauphin (Roddy McDowall) into action-"I shall dare, dare, and dare again, in God's name! Art for or against me?"-was a remarkable demonstration of her stage presence...
...awakened lest his soft snoring give them away. "As I hid in the grass, two Shakespeare quotations buzzed through my head," recalled Mannock, faithful to his Oxford education. "The first was 'Cowards die many times before their deaths.' The other, as the night dragged interminably, was the Dauphin sighing, 'Will it never...
...turn his marriage into a fray-for-all. Happily, whenever the strife skitters closer to tragedy than comedy, Director Stanley Donen takes the viewer's eye off the brawl by ushering in William Daniels and Eleanor Bron parodying a WASPish American and his shrewish wife, or Claude Dauphin, whose jet-set bore is a perfect putdown...