Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectacular new marina. Spoerry, 56, is an Alsatian architect and boat nut. He bought his swamp (for $600,000) in 1966; he dredged it and built the quays; he designed the houses and has been putting them up ever since. "I have tried to integrate the boat into the life of the vacation house," he says. "I built Port Grimaud for people who love sailing and the sea." And naturally, for profit...
...fret about keeping their jobs after a takeover. Then there is company involvement in urban affairs; executives are expected to participate KAISER MEDICAL OFFICE in community groups at the expense of their free time. Says Dr. L. S. Thompson Jr., a physician who treats executives of Dallas' Southland Life Insurance Co.: "You see a lot of battle fatigue in business, just...
...pressure to perform well in business looms ever larger as a reason why the life expectancy of males in the U.S. is only 66.7 years-five years less than in Sweden, and appreciably less than in such countries as Japan, Czechoslovakia and Israel. Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. ranks low in longevity-24th among countries that keep statistics. The male life expectancy rate has not risen significantly in the U.S. since the 1940s...
...ruined chateau, a family of French aristocrats are slowly starving to death. The austere, haughty marquise conceives a plan. With the help of God-and her daughter and granddaughter-she will turn the place into a bordello. As Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with...
...years, Montand has been living two lives. Onstage he is a singer of romantic ballads and risque street songs. Onscreen, in such films as La Guerre Est Finie and Live for Life, he is as grim and bitter as Humphrey Bogart. In The Devil by the Tail, he takes his stage personality out of the trunk and refurbishes it with a series of warm interludes and witty tongue-in-cheek pantomimes. As the marquise's daughter, Maria Schell also alters her usually grim image with a comically erotic performance and an exuberantly uplifted bosom...