Word: memoire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filed a civil suit against Snepp, charging that he broke his CIA oath of secrecy in publishing his Viet Nam book, the agency has not yet decided what to do about Stockwell. As for Colby, he will go public with his views of Angola and other matters in a memoir -duly cleared by the agency-that is to be published this week...
...book both extraordinary and historic. The personal memoir of a life of conflict, an extraordinary life lived in the arena, a public life that ended with the greatest fall in modern political history. The whole story...
Though nonsense of this kind is timeless, the farce is set in Paris in 1952, and it is clear that Director Claude Berri regards The First Time, like his earlier films The Two of Us and Marry Me, Marry Me, as a roguish memoir. The mighty engines of nostalgia come into play as male viewers in their 40s, harassed by their own teen-age children and the spores of mid-life fungus, look backward with Berri. It is a rueful pleasure to watch Claude and his randy school friends stumble rubber-kneed after anything in skirts. The viewer smiles...
...book, with about 250 photographs of Rockefeller's collection of primitive art, will appear this fall. Rocky, who has been tending to his family's financial interests and traveling since his retirement from politics two years ago, wrote an introduction to it, and also plans a personal memoir called The Art of Collecting. Many of his finer works will end up in museums, he says, since "with prices what they are and the heavy tax laws, you can no longer afford to leave them to your heirs...
Dersu Uzalu. A very fine film, but a regression, albeit in color, to Akira Kurosawa's early days of static, pictorial movie-making. I prefer the raging, audacious Kurosawa of "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo," but this simple piece, a memoir about a little old hunter, has undeniable charm, pathos, and humor. The rich colors and meticulous compositions become frustrating after awhile--we want Kurosawa to shake off his awe of the wilderness and plunge into it with the old daring and fervor--but there's something heartwarming about a touch this sure, and the wisdom and taste to know when...