Word: franã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Academy Award-winning writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But rather than rehash his many successes, he and Maslin spent their 90 minutes together discussing the “grammar for films” he learned from the French New Wave masters Fran??ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Everything about their conversation, from the topic to the manner, was full of deference and humility.“This may not be the truth for everyone,” Benton said, referring to his filmmaking philosophy, “but it?...
...coherent plot, characters, chapters or, at times, punctuation, began a literary movement in the 1950s that influenced a generation of French writers. Author of 10 novels, he also made several films that bordered on the pornographic. Although he was named one of the 40 "immortals" of the Acadmie Fran??aise--custodians of the French language and cultural patrimony--Robbe-Grillet perplexed and scandalized readers with his avant-garde storytelling. His last work, Un Roman Sentimental, was derided by some critics as obscene when it came out last year, but Robbe-Grillet described it as a "fairy tale for adults...
...think many are anxious to hear what her strategy for that is, where she envisions the French left in terms of its policies and how she can get the party there,” Craig said. In addition to existing party divisions, Royal’s intention to succeed Fran??ois Hollande as leader of the Socialist Party complicates matters. Long-time partners, Hollande and Royal separated after last year’s elections. “The Left in France is in shambles,” said Arthur L. Goldhammer, a senior affiliate...
...initials stand for Compagnie Fran??aise de l'Afrique Occidentale, a French trading company that once operated in Sierra Leone. Puryear connects the piece to ideas about cultural contact, about the French and Africans colliding in the place where history mingled them. I couldn't help thinking of Puryear himself, the artist venturing into the world in the mask we all wear sometimes and carrying his gifts and burdens before him. He might object. But as I said before, he's not a man to be understood too quickly. Not by us. Maybe not even by himself...
...Nobel Laureate and former Leverett House resident Francis M. Fesmire ’81 was also present. Fesmire won an award in 2006 for a medical study on “digital rectal massage for intractable hiccups.” Standing with a “Dr. Fran??s Anti-hiccup Kit” in hand, Fesmire makes a less-than-stellar sales pitch for his own product. “I have no desire to ever try it again” says Fesmire. The kit includes a tube of K-Y Jelly and a latex surgical glove...