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...more than a curiosity, however, Ma Nuit Chez Maud achieves its power through an aesthetic structure vastly more engaging than mere portraiture. Its first-person narrative frame forces you to share the experience of Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) through his visual point of view (also brief interior monologues), subtly builds up a tension between your sensibility and your experience of his, and finally forces a dialectical confrontation in sequence after sequence with the ultimately desirable Maud (Francoise Fabian), where his choices directly thwart your inclinations to act through him. Rohmer uses this audience identification with the human reality...
...Ma Nuit Chez Maud exists simultaneously on both of these levels and depends on the tension between them, a kind of inverted love story that's interesting mainly for the reasons the love doesn't come off, which are metaphysical, contradictory, and above all, intellectual. A knowledge of Pascal seems important in sorting out patterns of thought, since the sophisticated conversations ("you're more of a Jansenist than I am") are often elliptical, but don't be put off: with Rohmer, as with his New Wave cohorts, academic expertise is neither necessary nor sufficient for understanding his intellectuality. Most...
...fact, Bell began to step up its borrowing five years ago. Despite tight money, the company this year expects to float a record $4 billion worth of bonds, using many remarkably astute innovations. One idea is to sell $100 "Ma Bell savings bonds," bearing interest of 6½% or more at phone company offices throughout the U.S. Savings and loan men and Treasury officials, who sell U.S. savings bonds, are afraid of the competition that this would bring to them. Mindful of such fears, A.T. & T. officials last week decided to turn as usual to the ordinary channels...
Early in the 1960s, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage vowed to make Quebeckers the maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house) within the Federation. By 1968, René Lévesque, once a member of Lesage's Cabinet, helped found the Parti Québecois, which demanded political separation from Canada. Last spring, Lévesque's party won 24% of Quebec's vote in provincial elections...
...high school pep rally to protest the playing of Dixie, and a fight with white students ensued. The school board suspended the blacks for "leaving school without permission." One black eighth-grader in Louisiana was suspended for saying "Yes" to a white teacher instead of "Yes, ma...