Word: les
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tired of these surface exercises. For those still in the vanguard, Les Abysses may prove fulfilling. For the rest of us, those panderers of romanticism, Goddard and Truffaut, will soon return to the Brattle...
...Les Abysses, based on the actual double murder committed in 1933 by the Papin sisters, was assured of a favorable reception among the French avant-garde before the first frame of film began to roll through the camera. French intellectuals share a bizarre fixation for this particular crime; Genet, for example, based his play, The Maids, on it. As a result, Nico Papatakis, the director, may well have become too confident that every scene would have the emotional impact he intended. Unfortunately, they...
Wednesday, February 16 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Hope and Danny Thomas play poker with Jill St. John as the table stakes; Martha Raye plays Batgirl with Hope as an archvillain called Lobster Man; and Les Brown plays music with the Righteous Brothers...
Every normal Norman, Parisian planners calculated, would be delighted to help pay for such a triumphal occasion. They were wrong. Nestled amid the knotty hedgerows and gnarled apple orchards of the lower Seine Valley lies the village of Veauville-les-Baons (pop. 353), which has not changed much since William's day-and to some extent, holds him responsible. According to Jean Comps, 54, village schoolmaster and official secretary (also renowned for his fine home-made Calvados), the liege lord of Normandy in 1060 forced Veauville to ante up an annual ten gold talents to the nearby abbey...
...that's politically safe?" asks Count Jean de la Bruyère, 37, who made his fortune in Canadian real estate. "I follow the sun, and this is the place. And the informality! Here you may wear anything, but always no socks. That's very important. Jamais les socks...