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...remarkable cycle of films utilizing his autobiographical persona, Antoine Doinel. As in the previous segments of this informal series ( The 400 Blon's, Love at Twenty, and Stolen Kisses ), the hero is played by Jean-Pierre Leaud and his dilemma has to do with the conflict between his grandest visions of romance and the dulling routine that is in reality his existence. With variations. Antoine's problem is shared by the heroes of most of Truffaut's non-Doinel films as well- but nowhere is it as painfully brought forth as in Bed and Board. After fifteen years of fighting...
...years after work began. Nasser planned to hold the dedication last July 23 to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. But negotiations over a proposed Middle East cease-fire forced him to put it off, and he died before he could see his grandest project dedicated...
English Actor-Author Peter Bull, whose Teddy Bear Book has had considerable coterie success in Britain, was delighted to get an invitation to tea with Washington's grandest grande dame, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, after whose father, President Teddy Roosevelt, the cuddly stuffed animals were named. Would she mind, he asked, if he brought along a couple of the bears? She would indeed, Bull was informed. "I may be an old crone," grumped Princess Alice, "but I'm not driveling enough to have tea with a Teddy bear." Then she dashed any hopes Author Bull may have...
Berlioz: Les Troyens; 5 LPs (Philips). Berlioz' grandest achievement recreated for the first time on records by his greatest current interpreter, Conductor Colin Davis...
...American Journey, Jean Stein's new book about Robert Kennedy, Washington's grandest grande dame, crisp, canny and perennial Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, contributes her own distinctive views about the difference between Bobby and John F. Kennedy: "I see Jack in older years as the nice little rosy-faced old Irishman with the clay pipe in his mouth, a rather nice broth of a boy. Not Bobby. Bobby could have been a revolutionary priest...