Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plus the summoning secretary. Over the next few days, nearly 80 full-time and part-time staffers on the business side were dismissed by Wenner aides. Stunned victims, who received one or two weeks of severance pay, were calling it the "Jonestown Roll Call" and the "French Terror." Said Kevin Buckley, 38, sacked as a senior editor: "There were several of us who had been freshly executed, and Wenner came by and said, 'It's been nice working with you guys...
Since last October, a two-ton green granite sculpture has been on display outside an uptown Manhattan art gallery. Valued at $80,000, the abstract 8-ft.-high Ubatuba (named after the Brazilian town where the granite was quarried) was the work of French Sculptor Antoine Poncet, a disciple of Jean Arp. Poncet hoped that Ubatuba would bring "a fresh and pure breath" to a city he calls "New York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they...
...town into a sanctuary for Jewish refugees. They did it, moreover, under the nervous gaze of the Vichy government and in the shadow of a Nazi SS division stationed near by. Thousands of adults and children were saved. Those who could not be concealed were sometimes guided past hostile French police and German troops through the eastern mountains to safety in Switzerland. Years later the state of Israel saluted the work of Le Chambon during "the epoch of extermination" and awarded a Medal of Righteousness to Protestant Clergyman André Trocmé, who inspired the village in its resistance...
...charming but minor story of middle-aged love, a la Frank Gilroy's Once in Paris. But Francois Truffaut's new film Love on the Run is undeniably enchanting. In fact, it's perfect. Truffaut has created a flawless film which not only belongs to the genre of french romantic comedy, but which will be the yardstick other such films are measured against...
...film concludes Truffaut's autobiographical quintet: The 400 Blows (1959), Love at Twenty (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968) and Bed and Board (1972. Featuring Jean-Pierre Leaud, who has played Antoine Doinel in all five films, exquisitely depicts french life from the early sixties to the present day. Interweaving flashbacks from his pervious films. Truffaut presents the definitive and final portrait of Antoine in Love on the Run. Charming, irresponsible and utterly romantic, Doinel, the director's alter ego, makes love, writes, philosophizes, eats and drinks all with the same gallic enthusiasm. We know at the end that Antoine will remain...