Word: les
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for Gourin's eminently un-Brittanic appearance is simple: "les Américains." That phrase defines the hundreds of Gourinois natives who have spent years in self-imposed American exile, then returned to Gourin with a tidy nest egg. Brittany has long been one of France's few labor-exporting regions, thanks largely to the peninsula's unyielding poverty. But of all the towns that send Bretons to the U.S., Gourin sends the most...
...pool-hall sharks - those sly profession als who once traveled the U.S. preying on amateurs - are finding it tougher and tougher to make a living. Not that the game has declined. There are as many pool halls as ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only...
...Director René Clair. And though the industry suffers from many ills, he continued, "the worst problem right now is this taxation." Clair's polemics came at a wellrehearsed, Defend French Cinema Day press conference that was followed by a one-hour sympathy strike, from the producers to les script-girls, closing down all French sets...
Stravinsky composed his ballet Les Noces for a chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic choreography for Stravinsky's feverish music...
Premiered by Diaghilev in 1923 in Paris' Théâtre de la Gaité Lyrique, Les Noces has not been performed in the U.S. since 1936 because of the difficulties of mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet Theatre, which has had its ups and downs since it first burst on the U.S. stage with such freshly contemporary ballets as Robbins' own 1944 Fancy Free. Its current season at Lincoln Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended...