Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been wrought by a Paris-based firm improbably known as La Compagnie Françhise Thomson-Houston.* Within barely a decade, Thomson- Houston has not only risen from relative obscurity to the top rank of French industry, but also has succeeded in persuading Frenchmen that its name is as Gallic as De Gaulle. "Thomson sonne bien" (Thomson sounds good) is the company's slogan...
Fitting together these three comedies, separated in style and centuries, was a clever idea. They are not linked by Gallic flavor (that's how they say garlic in this state: tasty, if a little foul), but by the lively acting of David H. Mills, who appears in each...
...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...
...Redeeming Note. His subject was not mankind's evils but its foibles. The French Barracks, with one officer staring lecherously at the bosom of the girl cutting his toenails while another officer preens before a mirror, is a hilarious lampoon of Gallic lust and vanity. In The Return, Portsmouth Point and The Great Hall (for which Rowlandson farmed out the background, did only the figures), the satirist turned on his native land to poke fun at the rowdiness of the toughs and the smugness of the toffs. But beyond the brawling and posturing lie England's manicured countryside...
Wendy Hiller brings Miss Tina quiveringly to life, at first, touchingly timid, in the end, touchingly rash. Stunningly miscast as the Jamesian relic of a more gracious age. Franchise Rosay, with her Gallic accent and facial gestures, seems rooted in some irascible French family film. Maurice Evans elegantly elocutes lines that might better be spoken, but the talk is a smokescreen for a character that isn't there...