Word: gallicly
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...dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
...also been looped and twisted into a tricky knot of complications and double crosses. Rope, in fact, proves only two things: 1) given enough plot, any Hollywood melodrama can be counted on to hang itself, and 2) when it comes to acting, Miss Calvet, for all her diamantine Gallic glamour, is only a rhinestone in the rough...
...this Gallic fuss was stirred up by a simple enough story. Lycée Student François Jaubert (Gerard Philipe), too young to take part in World War I, falls passionately in love with Marthe Grangier (Micheline Presle). The devil in François' flesh is more than adolescent sex; it is also a blind adolescent ego, full of the power to hurt. Half-man and half-child, François mockingly helps Marthe select the furniture for the home she is to share with her husband, who is fighting at the front. Then he moves...
...middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left the play distinctly Gallic...
Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of the gloomy Gallic cult of existentialism, has been buffeted about recently. First, the Vatican put his works on the Index. More recently, the Russians have been after him. In the U.S., he has reached a precarious state of respectability; his earlier works are being reissued...