Word: mermaids
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...spoken of his affection for rapid and startling changes of mood. Shoot the Piano Player careened crazily from farce to thriller, and interludes of pastoral bliss alternated smoothly with scenes of excruciating emotional warfare in Jules and Jim. In these films, Truffaut mingled the various moods; in The Mississippi Mermaid, he segregates them severely. The first half of the film is a thrilling tale of obsession that slides-almost imperceptibly-into an ironic and slightly fanciful romance. The result is certainly Truffaut's smoothest, most professional piece of film making. It is just as certainly not his best...
...Coney Island's Mermaid Avenue, New York City police break up a thriving sidewalk traffic in heroin. The pushers: three boys, aged 15, 13 and 11, whose sales averaged $900 a week. The daughter of a Manhattan psychiatrist, located at the far end of a drug spree, boasts to newsmen: "I take hash, pot, LSD, heroin, speed-anything I can get." She is twelve. In Hollywood, a boy of eleven who has been pushing "ups" (amphetamine and methedrine pills) and "downs" (barbiturates, tranquilizers) since he was nine, is found out by his parents and locked in his bedroom. Through...
STOLEN KISSES. Francois Truffaut takes time out from paying homage to Hitchcock ( The Bride Wore Black and his most recent film, yet to be released in this country, The Mississippi Mermaid) to provide a deceptively simple piece about unfulfilled love that is as fine as any movie he has made to date...
...roseate spoonbills. They are mystified by the anhinga, a prehistoric bird that must spread and dry its wings after diving for fish, or drown from lack of natural-body-oil protection. On rare occasions, they glimpse the manatee-a huge sea cow that sailors once imagined to be a mermaid...
...planning to sell their cooperative apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Apart from a single meeting with foreign-policy advisers in Florida late in the week, Nixon had a family holiday, dividing his time between Key Biscayne and two privately owned islets in the Bahamas, Grand Cay and Mermaid...