Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tough talk from new friends wanted to express an even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
...Orson Welles has not made a lot of films, a dozen, I believe, but I've seen all of them." The declaration last week came not from some pallid revival moviehouse veteran, but from French President François Mitterrand, 65. Speaking at the Elysée Palace in Paris, Movie Fan Mitterrand then intoned: "Mr. Welles, we grant you the honor of Commander of the French Legion of Honor." The director of such film classics as The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane was less awed by his own craft. "The director is the most overrated artist...
...program. Even among the foreign leaders who indulged the U.S. requests for videotaped messages, enthusiasm was not unanimous.* Said an aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "She didn't know she was going to be on with people like Sinatra." An aide to French President François Mitterrand was more derisive: "It was pure show business, and demeans the idea of showing solidarity with the Polish people...
...roller skates, singing and giggling over love-notes. Lonely young adulthood ("The Curse of an Aching Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing up" is Jo-Jo, but the intervening years thus stylized, far from framing the slow growth of a conflict, become a string of unrelated heartaches. Fran occasionally mentions Jo-Jo's name, but between...
...waranth and sensitivity and kindness of remain disembodied to the end, and confronting and nearly palpable mist that ultimately disperses to nothingness for want of somewhere to settle. Without sustained tension or a cohesive enough plot, Fran's love and courage, however deeply feld, however hardly come by, remain abstractions. Like the exquisitely wrought texture of cultural nostalgia and theatrical illusion that form the basis of Alfred's style, they ache, desperately, for a more visible framework to gild...