Word: jacquese
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The Cheaters (Silver-Zebra; Continental) and Frantic (Times Film Co.). French moviemakers have lately had the notion that any film in which the young wear duffel coats, drink too much and charge about on motor scooters belongs to the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave, and should therefore be as...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The fire of Racine's tragedy and the froth of Beaumarchais' farce evoked with sense and sensitivity.
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The full-bodied red wine of Racine and the light, frivolous white of Beaumarchais, distinctively poured for discriminating palates.
No artist ever sketched the horrors of war more powerfully than Francisco Goya, but the pioneer in the field-and a first-rate one-was a man who lived nearly 200 years earlier. Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. Two dramas of sexuality, one tragic and one comic, rendered with a skill that does justice to the fiery poetry of Racine and the bubbling word play of Beaumarchais.