Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LES VIOLONS...
...French films are about childhood, in times like these most appear to be. Many, recently, have also concerned the German occupation during World War II. Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien (TIME, Oct. 14) is the most prominent among them: a steady, serious film, and vastly better than Les Violons du Bal. Both movies are about the humiliation and extermination of Jews, related through the experiences of a youthful protagonist. But all that was thoughtful in Malle's movie becomes smarmy in Les Violons du Bal-politics crushed into pastels for a Sunday painter's palette...
...that the work of art was a stretch of gauze running the length of the exhibition room but set two feet out from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along with a voice on a loudspeaker intoning "June fifth, Sam Ervin, blue-gray suit, dark blue tie, pale blue shirt, gold watch...
Outside, members of the Laissez-les Vivre (Let Them Live) anti-abortion group paraded past the Assembly, praying aloud. The Vatican issued a statement condemning all legislation that would permit abortion. This so outraged the liberal-Catholic Le Monde that the paper ran a front-page editorial denouncing "this interference in the internal affairs of a country where the church and state have been separated for 71 years...
...Congressmen invited by the Institute are Les AuCoin (D-Ore.), David F. Emery (R-Me.), James J. Florio (D-N.J.), Harold Ford (D-Tenn.), Carroll Hubbard (D-Ky.), and Robert W. Kasten...