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...BRIDE WORE BLACK. François Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers...
...official government euphemism was that programming was to be kept "light" to "put the French in a vacation spirit." The fact, however, was that 114 newsmen and producers of the O.R.T.F. (Office de Radio et Télévision Français) were on a paid holiday until September pending what Couve called "a profound reorganization." Their wages had been raised 13%, but the TV strike issue had been government censorship, not money. That complaint was still unresolved...
...appears to give much thought to revolt," writes François Nourissier in The French, which obviously went to press too soon. "Our young people are not brutal or rebellious or vicious or despairing or drugged or headed for extremist adventures. Indifferent? Yes. Nihilistic? No." Events since May seem to have proved Nourissier wrong, but curiously enough, they have in no way invalidated this splendidly instructive book. With affection and impeccable style, Novelist Nourissier (Une Histoire Française) shows his countrymen to be a gifted, cantankerous and immensely vital people, whose only predictable quality is their very unpredictability...
...remaining Frances second largest political party, the Communists lost 603,675 voters; their share of the total vote fell from 22.5% to 20%. The Communists' allies, the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, dropped 23%. This setback seriously dented the prestige of the federation's leader, François Mitterrand as a national political figure. The centrist coalition, led by Jacques Duhamel, dropped from 13% of the vote...
...opposition tried as best it could to counter the Gaullist tactics. "Two months ago, you would have voted anti-Gaullist, and two months from now you would vote anti-Gaullist again," declared François Mitterrand, leader of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left, in his final TV speech. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who leads the resurgent United Socialist Party, warned in Grenoble: "A continuation of Gaullism means inevitably the continuation of protest and social agitation...