Word: jours
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...occupying Nazis during World War II and the story of this film?s making and release is almost as interesting as the true-to- life adventure it recounts. It?s based on a novel Joseph Kessel - more famous for writing the book on which Luis Bunuel based Belle de Jour - published in 1943, when he was himself a member of the resistance, and it was written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (also a resistance fighter) in 1969, a quarter of a century after he first decided that he somehow had to make a movie of this story...
...Chemistry Club, waving back to someone who actually wasn’t waving at you is still going to sting. But it is simply our eagerness to over-think our actions and over-diagnose our weaknesses that makes “awkward” the mantra du jour of Harvard students...
...House dining hall. A provider of food, a homework station, a meeting forum, a social space–it is a hub of activity at all hours of the day and night. The dining hall is a place in which somewhat stale bagels are the fare du jour, procrastination thrives, and papers eventually get written (though it might not often happen until the HUDS staff starts prepping breakfast). Strong community is built by the mere existence of a central location through which housemates’ paths constantly cross. 2. Befriend the people around you. Students are at the epicenter...
AFTER LAST SEASON'S Technicolor floral prints, something more graphic is back in style for spring. Blame it on the Edie Sedgwick revival or designers' sudden interest in movies from the 1960s, like Belle de Jour, but bold black-and-white patterns are turning up on everything from Williams-Sonoma Home's Chinoiserie dessert plates to Nicolas Ghesquire's sought-after sandals. Even Fendi's hot new B bag is a must-have in white canvas with black patent-leather trim...
...adieu to the frilly ladylike look and navel-baring sexuality of past seasons. At Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci put his bespectacled models into stiff dresses and opaque tights. At Rochas, the modest mood was reflected in Olivier Theyskens' skinny, chimney-sweeper-inspired pantsuits and monastic evening gowns. The color du jour: soot black...