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...SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR by Marguerite Duras. 318 pages. Grove...
These qualities are nowhere more apparent than in The Sailor from Gibraltar, an expansive, leisurely novel written in 1952 but only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...
...leading Cunard to "a new and profitable future in a new market situation." Since becoming Cunard's chairman in late 1965, the former BOAC chief has completely reorganized steamship operations, linked up with British European Airways on a new winter-holiday scheme. Vacationers fly via BEA to Gibraltar, then board a Cunard ship for a leisurely Mediterranean cruise. Cunard does not plan to abandon its summer North Atlantic express service. Due to make its maiden voyage in 1969 is a new $80 million, 58,000-ton, one-class liner, now known only as the Q4, which will be suitable...
...Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, Sir Basil said he would consider selling them to another line so long as they did not compete with Cunard, also mentioned proposals for mooring the Queen Mary as an offshore "hotel" at Gibraltar or Los Angeles. Otherwise, the ships figure to be worth $1,800,000 each as scrap...
...Sailor from Gibraltar is Writer-Director Tony Richardson's contribution to the Cinema of the Absurd. Cinema because the actors in it move, however torpidly; absurd because it is film-flam posing as philosophy...