Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms of entertainment have raised more eyebrows than French movies. Now the old spice is coming in a new flavor-frankly sexy, often amoral, but invariably hewed close to ugly, beautiful realities. See CINEMA, New Wave...
...prosperous French businessman, Bouché was born 54 years ago in Prague, traveled much in youth, early demonstrated a flair for art, and made his first big money with fashion drawings for the Paris Vogue. Now settled in Manhattan, he spends a third of each year in Europe, charges $3,000 to $8,000 a portrait. He once dabbled in abstract expressionism, now pooh-poohs it: "I consider myself the avant garde, because nobody sings the song of the upper level of society today. Nobody speaks of the exceptional human being...
...share in September. The company recently announced plans to raise more capital by issuing 328,800 new shares. Shareholders were given rights to buy new shares, and the price jumped to $366. Today Machines Bull is valued on a stock basis at $240 million, among the top French companies...
...Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The ultimate in spectator sports, Perilous Assignment lets the arm chair adventurer sit in on a mountain-climbing class conducted by French Guide Gaston Rebuffat...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its warm, affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division...