Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...damn (or darn) few R ones. "It's just good business sense today to make only Gs and GPs," says Samuel Z. Arkoff, chairman of the board of American International Pictures. His company has deserted the previously profitable motorcycle and horror genres in favor of remakes of Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities and Camille. All three are fit fare for the family trade. Arkoff is not alone in his judgment that there is a backlash against explicit sex on film. Even freewheeling New York City Distributor Donald S. Rugoff admits to hesitation over an R rating...
...irony especially bitter to anti-SST forces was the source of the $85 million: it was money originally intended to compensate Boeing and General Electric, the two main contractors, for the cancellation. But two weeks ago, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends went to the White House to report that a vote on the canceling appropriation might be deftly turned to revive the plane. "It would be a great thing to get this done," President Nixon told them. The President set his congressional liaison office to work on the project, but the real persuasion was accomplished...
...teen-agers and their equally eager elders. Director Vadim constantly undercuts himself with the kind of sleazy eroticism (many shots of panties and nubile cleavage) that has made him a cinematic Flo Ziegfeld, but his decidedly black sense of humor has not been so finely honed since he made Les Liaisons Dangereuses ten years ago. The plot concerns a high school guidance counselor and football coach (nicely played by Rock Hudson) who relates to students in a decidedly intimate fashion. The film does not completely work, either as thriller or farce, mostly because Vadim insists on treating his actresses like...
...pile-driving climaxes, it raised rhythm to an unprecedented preeminence. Jarring the 20th century out of its lingering romanticism, it was more than "the cornerstone of modern music," as Pierre Boulez calls it. It was one of those works, like Joyce's Ulysses and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, that announced a new consciousness...
...years following The Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity...