Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, hymned in the pages of esoteric French film magazines, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice with this tough crime film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who goes to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...your cover story on the French monetary crisis [Nov. 29]: more important, perhaps, than an overhauling of the world's monetary system is an overhauling of the nationalistic attitudes toward international economic policies. Germany refuses to revalue the Deutsche Mark, and Germans applaud the victory over France. France refuses to devalue the franc, and De Gaulle envisions the nation's return to the head of the pack. If forced to devalue. France threatens a devaluation of such magnitude as to pull down other currencies with the franc. The U.S. dogmatically upholds the value of the dollar. The world...
...Gaulle, the most engrossing may well be a little biography for children, complete with charming drawings and simple text. Yet the unknown author, writing under the pseudonym Xavier Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled in a huge Mexican sombrero...
...hunt is as old as art itself. The an -cient Assyrians celebrated the chase in bas-reliefs, the Chinese in stone drums, the Babylonians and Egyptians in frescoes. Millenniums before, cavemen at the foot of the French Pyrenees depicted a mammoth hunt on their cavern walls. The ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne...
...psychological impact on speculators that a revaluation has, and the Germans knew that, too.) And their position wasn't really so harsh, once it had been stripped of its vindictiveness. They were asking why they should sacrifice any of Germany's hard-earned prosperity simply because the English and French couldn't manage their economies and their currencies and keep pace. And, put that way, it doesn't seem so unreasonable a question...