Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totally missed the connection between Roger Gicquel and Walter Cronkite in your uncritical portrait of the French TV anchorman [Sept. 25]. I never noticed any pompous morbidity or any Christ complex in Cronkite. The old man is a charmer because there are wisdom and warmth in his restraint. Besides, he has a quiet sense of humor that his younger imitator lacks. As a Frenchman I feel I deserve better than Roger Gicquel...
Through the GSD Community Assistance Program (CAP) eleven student volunteers from the landscape architecture and architecture departments will analyze the historical influences of French Canadian immigration on architecture in Lowell. They will use the results of their studies to develop a design for the center and then choose an appropriate site in Lowell's National Urban Park...
...Franco-American Center is the first center proposed for the National Urban Park. It will house exhibits celebrating the community's history, as well as classrooms, a library, a crafts workshop, a market and a French-American restaurant...
REMEMBER THE LAST Agatha Christie movie? You know, where all the people on the train had it out for this rich guy, who gets killed, and the great French detective goes through the suspects one by one trying to figure out which one did it, and it turns out it wasn't just one who did it, it was all of them. Remember? Well, keep that basic structure in mind and change some of the details and you've got the latest Agatha Christie movie, Death on the Nile, an enjoyable if formulaic story set on a cruise down...
...actors play their parts well, some more than others. Ustinov is fine as the supersleuth, but you wish he'd stop taking offense so often for being called French, not Belgian. Still, that's the screenwriter's fault more than Ustinov's. Niven is the quintessential unflappable Englishman, Bette Davis is right at home as a rich old bitch, and Chiles is a fine wealthy corpse. Mia Farrow is convincingly half-crazy, as usual. Some of the characters are drawn a little woodenly, and the script is nothing much to speak of. But then, neither is the Christie original...