Word: joy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skill, and Darieux, unlike the rest of the cast, does her own singing. Gene Kelly, his face frozen in its 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer grin, is wonderfully, incredibly, exciting to watch in action. Deneuve and Dorleac as twins ("toutes deux demoiselles, ayant eu des amants tres tot") reflect the joy with which Demy exercises the cinema's glorious potential to permanently trap on celluloid supremely magnificent women...
Among the French, joy was unalloyed?except by smugness. "Was it ever in doubt?" murmured Premier Georges Pompidou during a visit to Teheran. "This is the result of the clairvoyant action of President de Gaulle with regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable...
...rifled the ball over the second baseman's head in an attempted pickoff. The Yardlings' big catcher, Pete Varney, drew an intentional walk bringing up Bernhard. As soon as he hit the ball and Demichele crossed the plate, the game was over. But Bernhard rounded the bases in sheer joy, sliding home on his face...
...PRODUCERS. Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks's first film is an uneven joy ride with two canny Broadway showmen (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop...
...gossip concerns Piet Hanema, redhaired, stocky, 35-year-old father of two girls, housebuilder and restorer, a man "in love with snug, right-angled things." He is at once the sturdiest and the most pathetic character in Couples, a quasi-Christian and would-be family pillar who finds real joy in such things as "the children's choir's singing, an unsteady theft of melody." His adventures in adultery are an almost accidental byproduct of his own spiritual confusion, his wife's complicated sexual indifference and the irresistible why-not willingness of the women around him. "Georgene...