Word: idyll
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...Brando was holed up in Italy trying to escape the "persecution" of newsmen, his fiancée, onetime Artists' Model Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, just before taking off from Paris for New York, submitted to some persecution and sounded a trifle hazy about the direction their idyl will now take. "I know I am going to start a new life with the help of Marlon, and it will be different from what I have done so far," burbled she. "I hope to be in my first movie along with Marlon. We are supposed to be married around next June...
Madame and her girls have gone to the country to attend the first Communion of Madame's little niece. The country idyl is charmingly done, with the girls on their best behavior, the villagers impressed by the glamorous visitors from the city, and Madame Tellier (Madeleine Renaud) exhibiting a happy mixture of practicality and sentiment. Jean Gabin, as a shrewd but lovelorn peasant, and Danielle Darrieux, who cries with as much facility as she loves, keeps things going forward. But. like most weekends in the country, this one tends to drag a little on Sunday afternoon...
...soldiers were resented as pocket-jingling conquerors. The play tells in particular of a G.I. and an Italian girl (Leo Penn and Betty Miller) who come together because he is lonely and she is hungry, and share a room pretending to be husband and wife. Theirs is no wartime idyl; the girl loathes her role and denounces the man with a full G.I. bill of wrongs. He-decent, perplexed, finally irritated-cannot mend matters...
...people, young Maud and Dave Higgens were enchanted by the idea of escaping dull jobs in New York and going to live on a lovely island. Actually, they were misfits, "artistic" without being artists, totally unable to cope with life. At first, life on the island was the idyl they had dreamed, but when their money ran out and children came, the cruel business of earning a living in a hard country turned romance into a poverty-draped nightmare. With charity, economy, and a nice sense of fictional pace. Author Etnier generates complete sympathy for weaklings who learn too late...
Hollow in Huntington. Among the most revealing was The Painter of the Hole, I, a nihilistic idyl done in 1948. It suggests that Grosz, who at 60 lives a quiet, suburban life in Huntington, N.Y., is still obsessed with despair. A hollow man sits in a Waste Land landscape daubing at a canvas on which is painted nothing but a big hole. Rats, which to Grosz represents man's conscience "always gnawing at him for the deed he did not do," chew at the easel. This painter once believed in something, explains Grosz, but now he paints only...