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...Berlin to make films for the conquerors; an SS general being cordially greeted in Paris. Such things reveal one edge of Director Marcel Ophuls' purpose: anti-heroics. He tries to puncture the bourgeois myth-or protectively askew memory-that allows France generally to act as if hardly any Frenchmen collaborated with the Germans. The Sorrow and the Pity does that with a vengeance, but the bare facts of such an expose are hardly news. Happily, Ophuls, the son of noted Director Max Ophuls, also has broader, less partisan aims...
...altered from very bright to intime. Out of view but also done over is the ancient kitchen; heretofore state banquets have been catered affairs. The French press unanimously applauded Pompidou's devastating coup de main. Someone recalled that Arthur Rimbaud, one of Pompidou's favorite poets, told Frenchmen: "One must be absolutely modern." That was back...
Alas, the Premier chose to make his speech on the very day that the taxes of his fellow Frenchmen fell due. Critics on the left and right pronounced themselves unconvinced, and anti-Chaban demonstrators staged a march from the Place de la Bastille to the Hôtel de Ville. Had the Premier, who has been a deputy, mayor of Bordeaux, minister of the Fourth and Fifth Republics and speaker of the National Assembly, now become a liability to his party? Gaullist Deputy Jacques Richard overheard a shopgirl remark, as she paid her taxes, "Ah, if only I could manage...
...Democrats, Democrats, Why are you so blue? Nixon stole our policy, What ever shall we do-o?" Then there is Goodbye Gold (to the tune of Deck the Halls): "Flood the world with paper dollars, Fa la la la la, la la la la; Pay no mind to Frenchmen's hollers, Fa la la la la, la la la la." Other titles: God Rest Ye, Jackson Grayson and Should Milton Friedman Be Forgot...
...primary institutions have seemed to change little. The largely nationalized French banking industry remains one of the crustiest anywhere, and too many farmers are still dedicated to satisfying the world's pickiest palates rather than to modern agricultural production. Moreover, the standard of living for millions of Frenchmen remains mediocre: the last time the government checked (in 1968), for example, more than a third of Paris houses had no indoor toilet...