Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a twirl of his TV dial on one typical evening last week, an Italian viewer could tune into the following shows: instruction in sexual positions by a scantily clad young couple; lessons in chess, French or English; a battery of commentators ruminating about the kidnaping of ex-Premier Aldo Moro; an education program to help children with their homework; a spaghetti western; a porno feature called The Masseuses; and a phone-in quiz starring a housewife-masked to protect her identity-who peeled off an item of clothing every time a caller got the answer right. For the truly...
During the past few months, Strauss has used the telephone on his large French-provincial desk (adorned with a plaque asserting IT CAN BE DONE) to carry out many presidential missions. He has helped in pressuring coal companies to accept union demands during the recent miners' strike, promoting approval of the first Panama Canal treaty and persuading Senators to clear the nomination of G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman. The day after the committee swung behind Miller, Strauss told him: "Mondale and I worked that Banking Committee from A to Z yesterday. Now you can go to work...
...French, who may be the world's canniest people, do like to play crazy. Particularly when being fou like a fox lays a hot trail to the bank. They can be observed at their canniest-craziest at the annual showings in Paris of ready-to-wear fashions for fall and winter. The April r.t.w. cash bash is a come-lately promotion-cum-celebration that in recent years has overtaken the haute couture collections in importance, supports the high-fashion houses, and is largely responsible for drawing nearly $2 billion a year into the French economy. This year...
...Polanski, the peep shows--everybody's been hot about the subject of sex and children. Everbody's been even hotter about Brooke Shields, the twelve-year-old model with the face of a twenty-year-old who plays the lead in Pretty Baby. and based on his previous work, French director Louis Malle seemed like the perfect candidate to tackle the subject--child prostitution in early 20th-century New Orleans. In Malle's hands, the film could be expected to either purge our inhibitions with sexual explicitness, or plague our consciences with subtle social commentary. But unfortunately, the film turns...
...Malle also has an acute aesthetic sense; his other films have been very painterly in their effects and often masterful in their compositions. But in his other films, the richness of photography served to evoke his themes. In Lacombe, Lucien, the pale yellows and faded textures reflected the sultry French provincial world where even fascism unfolds at a meandering pace. And in a sleeper called The Thief of Paris, the visual opulence and use of decorative objects created just the sort of decadent bourgeois dreamworld that Malle's meant to attack. But in this film the visual effects, like baby...