Word: fanaticized
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In The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut has Gallicized a novel by American Mystery Writer Cornell Woolrich and remade it in his own images. As revealed in a series of shuffled flashbacks, the groom and the bride (Jeanne Moreau) trip happily down the steps of a church and smile at the...
"You are looking for Francois?" Roland Truffaut asked the truant officer. "Go look for him where he always is-at the movies." Even as a child, Francois Truffaut made cinema his preferred vocation: the life he led up until his first feature was just so much prologue before the credits...
Intermission. By this time, almost 1 hr. and 40 min. have passed, and the non-sci-fi fanatic may feel as benumbed as the scientists in their "hibernacu-lums." In depicting interplanetary flight 33 years from now, Director Stanley Kubrick and his co-scenarist, Arthur C. Clarke, England's...
A companion volume of sorts is The Tower of Babel, a spy novel about Middle East tensions in the period just before the Six-Day War; it has no faults except that it is neither tense nor in any way Middle Eastern. The wily Lebanese banker, the fanatic Syrian colonel...
Zubin studied violin and piano, but played indifferently and never joined his school orchestra. By the age of eleven, he knew that he was more interested in becoming a conductor like his father, and like the great figures (Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski) that he saw in the 1947...