Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...path to joining Europe - or even to cooperation in joint projects - is not smooth," sighed Britain's Guardian. It was the understatement of the week. With lofty hauteur, Charles de Gaulle has heaped scorn on every effort by Britain to nudge its way into the Common Market. It is even getting difficult for the French and the British to stay partners in the ambitious set of joint aircraft-production schemes so loudly heralded over the past couple of years...
...present instance, it should come as no surprise that Ritchard's Dream is diffuse and disoriented. It needed, and needs, a full-time director. As an actor, Ritchard does make a credible Oberon, imbuing him with a fitting amount of hauteur and mockery. His Bottom, though cockney, is not cocksure; it is too bland and superficial. This is a pity, for Bottom is the first of Shakespeare's great comic creations...
...expect to be the common bond of mutual interest in music, many musical groups are guilty of exclusiveness, lack of cooperation, and even open animosity. The HRO is famous for its possessiveness with regard to personnel, resisting their involvement in any other organization or activity. Equally famous is the hauteur of the Glee Club which, as one member put it, is as much Club as it is Glee; or of WHRBies who walk around wearing "Mozart Forever," and "Back to Bach" buttons but who never deign to attend concerts, in the apparent belief that music produced by plastic discs...
...Simpson's friends about the justice's drinking habits, but they also asked Simpson why he was suing. After all, they said, he had already paid the power company for smashing its pole, which would seem to imply a measure of responsibility for the accident. With icy hauteur, both the justice and his friend stood mute...
Purebred Siamese. Capucine's secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose...