Word: lino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information he possesses. They want the names of their own scientists who are leaking formulas to the Russians. If he will tell them, he will not be killed, suave Leo Genn informs the man. But if I talk, the Russians will kill me anyway, says a weary and disgusted Lino Ventura, who by this time has quite understandably had it with cold warriors of every persuasion...
University of Massachusetts President Robert Wood and Chancellor Go- lino are pressing equally hard to keep public tuition down and construction funds up. Golino scoffs at the contention that spaces for 20,000 students are going begging in private institutions: "Spaces? Where? In what specialty? Places in a curriculum are not like seats in a theater." Wood points to his experimental College of Public and Community Service-which is developing individual training programs for professionals in public service agencies-as the kind of pioneering project that private institutions cannot easily match
HAPPY NEW YEAR (directed by Claude Lelouch, starring Francoise Fabian, Charles Gerard and Lino Ventura) is so much gauzy enchantment that it takes some extra deep breathers to come down once you've hit the street. The movie could fill the prescription of the most diehard dream factory devotee--romance and a robbery heist, suspense and soft-boiled humor, a 'sensitive' style that cloaks everything in a nimbus of mist. It's the very best kind of make-out movie, all promises. And if you're not up for a few hours of huggy-wug and kissy-bear--though...
...Bonne Annee (Happy New Year) begins with black-and-white footage from A Man and a Woman loudly mocked by a group of convicts, who are being shown the film at Christmastime. One of them, Simon (Lino Ventura), regards the proceedings on screen with skepticism that borders on disgust. Soon after, hi the sort of unlikely stroke that frequently occurred in A Man and a Woman, Simori is pardoned from his prison sentence as sort of an official holiday gift...
...MONEY is a cache of fleeting pleasures collected by Claude Lelouch, who always seems to make films (A Man and a Woman) with the same airy cheer, as if he were mailing out greeting cards. The plot is a congenial sort of caper about a gang of aging delinquents (Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Charles Gerard, Aldo Maccione) who hire themselves out for all kinds of elaborate political thuggery. Since ideology cannot be stashed in a numbered Swiss account, it plays no part in their addled schemes, which include kidnaping a Swiss diplomat and hijacking...