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Hydro-Quebec said the river conditions resulted from the unusually heavy September rains in the region, and that the volume of river flow had been reduced by the construction of its dam. "Our position," said Hydro-Quebec Spokesman Jean-Guy Ouimet, "is that we are spilling less water than nature would...
...obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes of neurasthenic surrender and the will is strangled in brocade. If the screenplay by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne omits or hastily vulgarizes Proust's nuanced sensitivity to social gesture and psychological tremor, the film nevertheless suggests a legitimate response to this most daunting of literary material. Well and bravely acted, Swann in Love is a mesmerizing, even haunting experiment...
...Premier. The former President has not scored well in recent opinion polls, trailing both Barre and Chirac as well as Simone Veil, a former Giscard Cabinet Minister and now a French member of the European Parliament. Last week's victory was important for Giscard, according to Political Writer Jean-Marie Benoist, because "it restored his confidence." Giscard campaigned in a downhome, American style, calling the charge that he is out of touch "a myth." While some political analysts see his victory as an indication of dissatisfaction with Mitterrand, others wonder whether Giscard's return will succeed only...
...that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby (1967). The past year alone has seen radical film versions by Peter Brook, Carlos Saura and Jean-Luc Godard...
...self-proclaimed disciple of famous coach Jean-Paul Sartre, Bisconti revealed how he went undercover in Cambridge, lecturing to "40 professors" on the topic of "Existentialism: Its Political Implications...