Word: gallicly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacques Tati is a tall, gangling Frenchman who moves like a badly-controlled marionette and possesses a real talent for taking pitfalls with the least possible grace. A veteran of the music halls, Tati practices a kind of humor which is not at all subtle, Gallic, or witty, but still enormously funny...
...existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare of Marcel Aymé and The Wicked Village of Gabriel Chevallier a fun-and-games attitude toward sex sets the tone, so that even the most serious consequences of immoderate passion are summed up with nothing more stern than...
Maloret into a closet, knocks out his son and pushes him under the bed, and takes Madame Maloret. Gallic irony: the lady is delighted...
...pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
During his quarter century, Conductor Golschmann has become a part of St. Louis. His collection of modern French painting has left the imprint of his taste on the city ("There are more than 90 Picassos in San Lewis," he says in his compromise Gallic-American pronunciation, "and I am only talking of the first-rate ones"). His poker playing has contributed much to the liveliness of the game in St. Louis. And his music has opened St. Louis ears to the contemporary world...