Word: gallicly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Inspector Maigret is a gem of understatement. Always frank, in the best French tradition, the movie is nonetheless in perfect taste. As a result, it is absorbing and believable. Besides, there is no better combination than Jean Gabin and good Gallic murder-mystery...
...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at nine this fall, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle has been holding forth in Emerson Hall, and his Gallic-flavored commentary on modern European history has charmed squealing 'Cliffies and sophisticated Harvard men alike...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies...
...with fragrant memories. There is no more wit to its frivolous scenes than depth to its sober ones. The audience can only watch a lost young man and a woman who gets older and older. At whatever age, Kim Stanley proves a gifted actress, but she seems about as Gallic as cornflakes and as demimondaine as Betsy Ross. She is forever fighting a role as well as a script...