Word: luc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Carere is presented as a homebody who yearns to marry a nice young law student (Bradford Dillman). But his mother does not like her, and her mother gets upset at the sight of him. Only solution: pop off to the seaside with his rakish Uncle Luc (Rossano Brazzi). In the book, after Luc's wife (Joan Fontaine) discovers their affair, Dominique goes right on with him. On the screen, endowed with an honestly passionate heart and soul, Dominique can only tearfully apologize and slink back to the youthful boy friend. Franchise Sagan doubtless regards the movie with...
...drinks Scotch methodically and goes to bebop dances at a nightclub called the "Kentucky."' Much of the time she is "bored passionately," and her casual, completely physical love affair with Bertrand, a fellow student, rarely takes the edge off that boredom. Then Bertrand introduces her to his uncle Luc and Dominique decides hopefully: "He's just the kind that seduces little girls like...
...Luc is somewhat spavined and haggard, a kind of walking ruin of a roué, and, of course, old enough to be Dominique's father. What makes their liaison inevitable is that they both fear the binding emotions of real love like a plague and hence, in Author Sagan's Sartrian thinking, respect each other's freedom. Both cherish isolated moments of intense sensation, encountered rather like chance oases in the desert journey of what they regard as life's everyday meaninglessness. After one passionate week on the Riviera stretches into two, Dominique finds that...
...points about two miles apart where they had been stopped by troops." Shortly thereafter Mecklin was to report at firsthand just such a highway battle, typical of IndoChina's hit-and-run war. Accompanying General Rene Cogny, he took part in an inspection tour of Namdinh and Binh-luc. The following day, Mecklin risked mortars and snipers to cover an armored operation which leapfrogged out to rescue two besieged Vietnamese outposts. That day his friend, Photographer Robert Capa, who had gone 75 yards ahead of him up the road, was killed by a mine (TIME, June...
...hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns to help arm the hundred local militiamen...