Word: dietrich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her planned opening at London's Grosvenor House, enduring Marlene Dietrich, 72, has kept her celebrated profile even lower than usual lately...
After the accident Dietrich was spirited aboard a Pan Am 747, bedded down atop eight flattened first-class seats, and flown to New York for repairs. While the throaty singer vowed that her shows would go on, doctors were less certain...
...more demanding, delicate or deadly than nuclear diplomacy, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is one of the few men in the world who can be said to have mastered it in both theory and felt-table practice. Recently, while escorting West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to San Clemente to meet with President Nixon, Kissinger stopped off en route to visit the nuclear-missile installation at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N. Dak. There, 150 Minuteman missiles stand at the ready beneath their giant manhole covers, and Kissinger, who as a negotiator handles Minuteman, Polaris and Poseidon missiles...
...FILM'S FALSE ending shows this ambiguity best: After Veronika's monologue, Alexandre leaves to drive her home; and Marie is left alone, lying on her bed, her head against the wall. She puts on a song by Marlene Dietrich and when the song is over the audience expects the film to be over: Veronika has just delivered a devastating judgment about the lives of Alexandre and Marie; she seems determined to walk out of their lives. Instead, Eustache returns to Alexandre and Veronika and the audience titters in annoyance that the film isn't finished yet, that an easy...
...film portrays that old life with Marie and Veronika and blocks all avenues of escape. The three characters live almost entirely at night, inside the same two or three rooms and the same two or three cafes, imprisoned by the motifs of their decadence: whisky, cigarettes, Proust, Dietrich. Any attempt to get out of this claustrophobic world, like marriage, seems like just another manipulation of unreality. The only thing that makes the acceptance of marriage seem so important is that it is discussed at the end of the film, but Eustache has built The Mother and the Whore so that...