Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...structural familiarity spreads itself into the story. Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont), thoroughly resistable convict, is the subject of a sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed...
...populist, has promised to make cable television an important election issue this year. In addition to the insinuations tossed back and forth in the Council that certain people might have ulterior financial interests in bringing cable television to Cambridge, the question of privacy and surveillance via two-way cable hook-ups has been raised by People Against National Identification Cards (PANIC). As a result, the city fought a proposed MIT experiment to equip the Washington Elms housing project with cable TV and declared an 18-month moratorium on such franchises...
...taken care of," said Army Specialist Four Nelson Coffey, 29, of Portageville, N.Y. "I've paid my girl friend's rent till the end of the month and given her a couple hundred piasters so she'll survive. I guess if she can't hook up with a civilian soon, she'll go back to the rice paddies...
...actually quite ambiguous. Luce felt that Chiang, as the official wartime ally of the U.S., deserved at least as much postwar support as De Gaulle. But he gave a hearing and ample space to his anti-Chiang correspondent in China, Teddy White. Luce even tried to "get off the hook with Chiang" after he refused to accept General Marshall's proposals to face the realities of Nationalist China. From then on, Luce continued to lobby personally for aid to Chiang, but no longer bet on him as a journalist. Luce seldom overstayed a losing crusade...
FRIDAY: Marlowe. (1970) James Garner as Raymond Chandler's famed private eye in a missing-persons case involving an ice-pick murderer. CH.7. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. In Concert. ABC--WBCN simulcast series features the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Green, Taj Mahal, Dr. Hook, and Eric Weissberg. CH.5. 11:30 p.m. Color...