Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salinger's commentaries-on such topics as Carter's foreign policy, the Bert Lance affair, the Concorde furor-are a Franco-American spaghetti of high-minded civics lessons and smoke-filled-room atmospherics. Though he correctly foresaw Carter's troubles over energy legislation, he has blandly described the New York governorship as a major stepping stone to the White House-which it has not been since 1932. French journalists, unaccustomed to Salinger's anecdotal style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris...
Directed by Joseph Losey Screenplay by Franco Salinas...
...first sight, "A Wedding in the Family" looks like "Oh God, another film about the family." It gives Boston film-maker Debra Franco a crack at every visual artist's secret desire--taking classic wedding pictures--and it forces an objective look at the American family. This one eventually pulls through as a questioning of traditional values: Are women accepted as mature human beings if they remain unmarried? Is the security of marriage worth the sacrifice of career and individuality? Franco asks the questions and doesn't fall into the pea soup of trying to answer them...
...young urban terrorist, in Europe at least, claims to speak for the working class. In fact his background is most often middle or upper middle class, and the common man is as frightened of his methods as is the millionaire. Franco Ferracuti, a forensic psychiatrist at Rome University, interviewed several members of Italy's notorious Red Brigade. He found that most of them came from well-to-do, churchgoing families and had attended universities, majoring in the social sciences. All had witnessed, and many had participated in, the Europe-wide May revolution of students in 1968; the Red Brigade terrorists...
...seeks total independence for the provinces (and links with Basque areas of France) and rejects government offers of regional autonomy. Estimated active membership: 60 to 120, with thousands of supporters in the northern provinces of Spain. Its archcrime: the 1973 bombing murder of Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, then Franco's Premier...