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Word: french (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children. Her voice grates across the screen like razors on a chalk board. Yet two questions arise--if she was this horrible, why would a man of Fernand's obvious sensibility ever have married her, and second, can Serreau have no compassion at all for this lower middle class French woman whose husband leaves her with two small children for another...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Short Circuits in the Social Order | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

PARIS--Forces of "democratic liberty" took over the Central African Empire yesterday after 14 years of rule by Jean-Bedel Bokassa. French troops flew in to help the new regime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bokassa | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Bokassa flew to France when his plane ran short of fuel and was allowed to land but was refused asylum, official French sources said yesterday. He was expected to fly to Libya this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bokassa | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...that you can hear just by walking into a local club on any night; bands that you don't have to buy tickets for months in advance; bands that have only a guitar, a bass, and a drummer, and couldn't care less that they don't have a French horn. And more bands than any record label could possibly sign, produce or promote...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...artistic risk taken by French Director Diane Kurys in this her first film is large. She wants to break free of the artificiality of plot, the storyteller's hokum in which the revelation of character is only incidental to the tedious march of exposition, complication, resolution. Director Jean-Charles Tacchella's likable Cousin. Cousine managed this difficult trick; it simply showed two ordinary but agreeable people falling in love and taking delight in each other, utterly without benefit of story. Kurys tries for the same artful simplicity. She introduces an appealing girl of 13 named Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Events | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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