Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Like a kid with a handful of bright new crayons, French Director Jacques Demy transforms a sadly cynical musical about young love into a film of unique and haunting beauty...
Even when that time of decision ar rives, Johnson, being Johnson, has hopes of keeping everybody happy. "When I was a boy," he says, "one kid would put his arm up between two other kids and say, 'The one who spits over my arm first is bravest.' And one would spit and hit the other one and then there was a fight. I try to avoid all that, just as I try to avoid saying ugly things about labor, industry, the farmer, any group in this country...
...comprehensive high school for youths of different intellectual capacities, and the IQs range from 75 to 130. Every pupil writes a weekly 300-word composition to counter the prevalent weakness in verbal skills. Math and science come easier because in those subjects "we are dealing with a kid's natural ability," explains the Rev. Joseph C. Verrett, vice principal. "When we get into fields loaded with cultural values, we find that our kids are retarded...
Demy not only risks the commonplace, he makes simplicity almost a fetish, disarms the audience with ingenuousness. Like a kid with a handful of bright new crayons, he scrawls his sadly cynical fairy tale across the shabby landscape of the town. Through his eyes Cherbourg becomes a city of promise done up in candy-box decor, where every shopfront, boudoir and corner bistro has been daubed with gentle pastels or vibrant reds, yellows, pinks, blues. This is the way things ought to be, he wistfully suggests, not yet faded with the passing seasons into the greyness of things as they...
Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid ... ) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...