Word: maison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birabeau (Laurie Main), who is an inanely unsuspecting cuckold. All the key figures converge on a kind of maison d'amour run by the lecherous Mme. Spritzer (Kathleen Freeman). There they are beset by an 1890 version of the Keystone Kops who have a devil of a time trying to fathom the traffic flow...
...this trio now is not the spartan demands and hope of playing in the Super Bowl but the intrusion of self-realization. There is a special emphasis on an est-like movement called BEAT. Shake is converted to it, and his new-found saintliness threatens the stability of the maison à trois. His "seriousness" turns Barbara Jane's head. She must be rescued from both BEAT and marriage by Reynolds, who pretends a conversion of his own in order to expose the shallowness of the movement. The Ritchie-Bernstein version of an est seminar is done with marvelous malice...
...Squires. Here he is in Paris, "violently smitten" with the geometrical volumes of the Hôtel de Salm, so denuded of fripperies of rococo as to promise him a new mode of architectural thought. There he is in Nîmes, entranced by the proportions of the Roman Maison Carrée, ordering a model of it, which, shipped back to Virginia, became the basis of the Capitol at Richmond...
Joseph Grand-Maison, a fellow at the Institute of Politics, is currently conducting a before-and-after analysis of the Massachusetts primary to be researched by about 30 to 35 student volunteers...
...Grand-Maison managed the victorious campaign of Sen. John Durkin (D-N.H.) last year and also Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's successful 1974 campaign...