Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still the despair of his security staff. His personal bodyguard consists of only two "gorillas," whose shoulders seem to slope down from their ears. But dark blue police vans are positioned on side streets around the Elysée Palace, and apartments above the chic shops along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore facing the palace are periodically searched. When De Gaulle is at Colombey, up to 100 gendarmes are sometimes disguised as farm hands and posted around the village. At the rambling estate in Colombey, De Gaulle gets a measure of the family life and relaxation he misses...
Regine Crespin has an amazing voice. She recently pleased New York critics as the Marschallin in the Lotte Lehmann-directed Rosenkavalier at the Met, but New York has not yet heard anything like her "Divinites du Styx," which nearly knocked me out of my seat Thursday night...
...Gluck aria with no more visible effort than if she had been singing a Faure chanson. She did, in fact, sing some Faure later in the program, and very nicely, too, but my grosser sensibilities craved another of those absurd and wonderful scenas for dramatic soprano something like "Ozean, du Ungeheuer" from Weber's Oberon...
...scheduled part of the concert to a close with the expected volley of applause. Then, as if just to show us she could do it. Mme. Crespin sang as an encore a Poulenc trifle which was all wit and elegance. Now if she only had followed that with "Ozean, du Ungeheuer...
Paris Belongs to Us. "Of all the New Wave films, this is the most original and the richest." Such is the opinion of many French reviewers. Perhaps they are talking about some other movie. This one is the first full-length effort of a 34-year-old critic (Cahiers du Cinéma) named Jacques Rivette, and the best that can conscientiously be said for Director Rivette at this point is that he promises handsomely to do better next time...