Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phedre. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St., Thursday and Friday at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday...
Rules of the Game. A case could be made for this film as the best film comedy ever made. It is certainly Renoir's best film. His work generally involves a search for a community to identify with in French society, whether aristocracy bourgeoisies, peasantry or working class. This quest often leads to the sentimental conclusion that such an identification is possible. But in Rules of the Game Renoir rejects false resolutions. Though the film seems to identify itself sporadically with the aspirations of different characters--the eccentric aristocrat, his Viennese wife, the romantic aviator, and Octave (played by Renoir...
...many priests and bishops in Brazil balked when a lay comunidad member in 1976 announced that "the days when the priest was the main one" were over. Others in Latin American Christendom are likely to be troubled by a declaration at weekly Mass by Volta Redonda's French priest Jacques Duquesne that "faith should not be seen as the burden of the Cross, but rather as faith in a better world." Such apparent doctrinal distortions may have been what prompted Pope John Paul II during his Mexican trip to urge the Latin American clergy to be "priests, not social...
...weapon: "Actually Louisa, the young girl visitor, has just gotten quite a good job. She knows a few things and a few people. She went out early, but not too early, in black pants and a black leather coat. She put on a scarf with the name of a French designer displayed with such prominence it might have been he who was the applicant...
...Thatcher--dubbed the 'Iron Maiden' by the Soviets--who has been openly skeptical of the value of detente and a SALT II agreement. And though the Conservative commitment to increased NATO defense spending may please the Pentagon, a Tory Britain acting more Europe-conscious and less, as the French allege, "as a stalking-horse for American interests," may well be rated a minus by the State Department...