Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, a favorite of French cinema fans, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. This is a tough crime film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who goes to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...attitude on the part of the U.S.," one that leads to an improvement of communication with the NATO allies. In particular, he notes, "one of the necessities, in order to rebuild the European Community, is to re-establish a dialogue with General de Gaulle and the leaders of the French government...
...would give tacit recognition to the Viet Cong. Possible solutions: a round table, or a square one set up in the shape of a diamond, enabling one side to assemble along the upper half and the other along the lower half. Said one U.S. official: "We may put the French furniture industry to a real test before we're through...
CORSICAN brigands, Algerian footpads, Parisian safecrackers and other prowlers in the French underworld learned last week what they were missing by practicing crime at home 'instead of abroad in the U.S. A recent issue of Figaro printed excerpts from My American Prisons, a new book by Parisian Jacques Angelvin, 54, who describes his five years of confinement in half a dozen U.S. jails. Responding to the author's Michelinesque approach, Figaro also displayed appropriate symbols to indicate the comfort, cuisine, amenities, amusements and other facilities offered by American jails...
...worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the pictorial art of Europe. On this eschatological basis, Australian-born Critic Robert Hughes has compiled a catalogue of terrors and delights, drawn mainly from Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch masterworks. Man, it is clear, has found it considerably harder to envisage felicity than its opposite, and so the infernal regions have been illustrated in a highly spirited fashion. The delineators of heaven, on the other hand, have found the place safe but dreary. The horrendous Hieronymus Bosch...