Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although many details of the trip are still secret, it is likely that in Peking the President and Mrs. Nixon will stay in a government guest house near the Jade Abyss Pool on the capital's western outskirts. On the evening of their arrival, there may well be a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, the all-purpose government entertainment center. Before departing for Hangchow, the President, it is thought, will repay his hosts with a banquet, also in the Great Hall. The Chinese will supply the food, but Nixon is carrying in American champagne...
...Watching films regularly can be a chore, no matter how beloved. And, given the current state of the art and product, it's difficult keeping open to new possibilities without allowing a tide of garbage to jade one's eye and soul. The three films under consideration have each aroused great quanta of controversy. Each, however, is in its own way so dulling, that dismissal would seem the proper treatment were one not committed otherwise. Thus, be forewarned that all the values named are relative...
Married. Dino Martin, 19, jet-setting son of Dean Martin; and Olivia Hussey, 20, jade-eyed British actress and star of Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film, Romeo and Juliet, both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...Board picks up Antoine's story where Stolen Kisses left it off. He is now married to the girl-next-door. Christine Darbon (Claude Jade), he courted in the earlier picture, and he is still trying to find a job which he will be able to keep. All the territory one might expect to find in a film about the first year of a marriage is here: the trivial spats, the role conflicts, the discussions about toothpaste, the birth of the first child, the first extra-marital affair. But as one expects, Antoine Doinel does not accept this rigmarole...
...first appearance eleven years ago in The 400 Blows as a lonely, desperate adolescent. Then came Love at Twenty and Stolen Kisses, in which the youth edged toward maturity. Now Antoine-who has been portrayed throughout by the remarkable Jean-Pierre Léaud-and Christine, played by Claude Jade, are ready for conjugal love. Truffaut begins the funny, futile years of their marriage (and ends the autobiographical series) with Bed and Board...