Word: frans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHAMADE, by Françoise Sagan. Another dissection of the anatomy of a love affair written crisply and economically by the heiress to Colette's throne...
CULDESAC. A comedy of terrors with Donald Pleasence playing a flabby old fool of a husband to Françoise Dorléac's snippy little chippy who lusts for excitement-and finds it when a mobster-on-the-lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into their home...
...CHAMADE, by Françoise Sagan. Another of the author's interlocking triangles-two young lovers, two older lovers at hopelessly crossed purposes. A brief novel, elegantly told...
Most of the ads, though, seem to be aimed at the prom set. Lavoris' pitchwoman is "Fran," a hip Ann Landers-type columnist, fielding readers' problems. Her inevitable solution: "Use Lavoris, lover boy. You'll sweeten up those sour dates." How did she guess? "Don't think your dear old Aunt Fran doesn't know which way the wind blows." Colgate 100 has similar advice to the breathlorn. The date is over, and Tom is depositing Betty at her door. She melts into a coy pucker only to be offered [gasp!] a handshake...
...Eyed Wurlitzer. François Dallegret's La Machine is a far heftier entree. A Frenchman, now designing for Montreal's Expo 67, Dallegret has designed a device that looks like a giant metal steeplechase hurdle, weighs half a ton, and is priced at $27,000. It consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams...