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...Some courses don't lend themselves well to the case study method," says Fran Rinaldi, assistant director of Stanford's program. Rinaldi cites international economics and business-government relations as areas which need a more formal treatment...
Suprised Eliot defensive lineman Fran Duggan watched the ball fall into his arms, and Eliot had new life...
...François Truffaut...
...years ago, François Truffaut stood in the wings of Avery Fisher Hall at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, chatting with an admirer while waiting to go onstage to speak at a tribute for Alfred Hitchcock. On cue the lights went down and scenes from Hitchcock films flared onscreen. Stopping himself in, midsentence, Truffaut exclaimed, "Oh! La projection!" and turned, eyes bright, to a peephole that gave access to the magic images. The old lure was irresistible for this French movie master who was, first and forever, a child of the American cinema...
...calendar says he was 52 at his death; but the enthusiasm he brought to his life and his work indicates that Truffaut remained in part a perpetual enfant adorable. That life began in rebelliousness. The son of a Paris architect, young François spent time in reform school (an ordeal he memorialized in his first feature, The 400 Blows) and was kicked out of the French army (an incident that begins Stolen Kisses). Luckily for Truffaut, the great film critic André Bazin saw in the layabout a ferocious intelligence begging to be channeled. By his early 20s, Truffaut...