Word: jeaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play changes shape in the eye and era of the beholder. When Tiger at the Gates was written in 1935, the shadow of Hitler fell across the world and darkened the significance of Jean Giraudoux' drama. In its first U.S. production in 1955, the menace of McCarthyism seemed to be echoed in the play. Doubtless the mentors of Manhattan's Lincoln Center now see this tragic confrontation between the Greeks and the Trojans as a cautionary parable of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though the analogy is wrenchingly sophomoric. The sad fact is that Tiger cannot carry...
...their way of sneezing or of wearing down their heels that a condemned people can be recognized," wrote the French playwright Jean Giraudoux. In his report on 18th century France in the shadow of the guillotine, Sanche de Gramont, Parisian journalist and historian (The Secret War, The Age of Magnificence), has done a heel measurement and sneeze count on his country's monarchy in its declining years. His conclusion confirms Giraudoux's epigram: The monarchy literally lost its head when it lost its style...
...Killy's life ever since his father, descendant of an Irish mercenary who fought for Napoleon (the family name originally was Kelly), opted for the quiet life in 1946 and moved his family from Paris to Val d'Isere, 6,037 ft. up in the French Alps. Jean-Claude was then three; within a year, he was a familiar figure, with baggy pants and a runny nose, on the slopes outside town. "I would carry my skis to school and rest them against the wall so I could ski at lunchtime," he says. "On Thursday mornings, when...
Money is only one of Jean-Claude's concerns. He wants to race a car some day at Le Mans; he also would like to break the world speed record (109.14 m.p.h.) on skis. But first, after those long, monastic months of training, he has some catching up to do. With what? "Fun," he says simply, "and les petites jeunes filles...
...first week of the Winter Olympics belonged to favorites, the second -except, of course, for Jean-Claude Killy-belonged to underdogs and sentimentalists...