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...Pursue. One of the greatest sportsmen of all time was a medieval French knight named Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, who cut a dashing figure in the 14th century with his white armor and white charger. Renowned not only as a huntsman but as a lover, a poet and a diplomat, Gaston kept a stable of 600 riding horses, hundreds of stag, buck and boar hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston...
...actors rush into the play at a disturbingly frenetic rate. But they manage to slow down, with the lead of the earthy, almost scandalously irreverent Dorine (Marcelle Ranson). Miss Ranson along with the easily swayed, emotionally extravagant and insecure Orgon (Gaston Vacchia) and the very slimy Tartuffe (Yves Gasc) give their roles a credibility and life the others lack. But it is true that Moliere has left somewhat flatter other characters: the attractive Elmire (Janine Souchon), the ingenue Marianne (Francine Walter), her brother Damis (Luc Ponette), her fiancee Valere (Pierre Cpustere), and Elmire's brother, Cleante (Michael Favory...
...Gaston, is played engagingly by Ross Bickel and minces and shuffles as a nervous adolescent nincompoop. The other actors are competent as is to be expected but none of them is memorable...
...Euzennat and Salviat had won the support of Malraux. Unmoved, Marseille's mayor, Gaston Defferre, claimed that the city would lose 2,000 jobs and millions of dollars if construction stopped. He offered to rebuild the walls elsewhere, but the scientists balked. "If you transfer these walls, you destroy them...
...that inane reverse-and double-reverse Gaston-and-Alphonse jig that Lyndon and Aleksei trotted out, what would have happened if the surveyor had missed the halfway point by a hundred feet? Would they have thrown up a tent in the backyard and torn up poor old Tom Robinson's rose garden? Honestly...