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...Jean Perier, in Paris-and right next door to her mother at that. Impresario Coquatrix worries that she "does not have the dedication and passion" for a show-biz career, and Roger Vadim complains of her "unlimited nonchalance." In Manhattan last week, Françoise was dragging through a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promotion campaign for Grand Prix. On her turtleneck sweater was pinned a button that said APATHY...
...technique. While this type of rhyme is not even considered rhyme in our English tradition, Russians make use of it. And, especially with Yevtushenko and other modern poets, it is such a special feature that it cannot be ignored in the translation of their poems. Rhymes such as "micropore-Metro-pole" and "Perlovke-perlone" are duds directly from Yevgeny himself...
...they were made even worse by the last-minute cancellation of Jean Renoir's 1932 film "La Chienne," long considered one of the director's finest films. With the Renoir gone, the only "revivals" at the Festival were "A Woman Of Affairs," a mediocre Garbo film directed by a Metro hack, Clarence Brown, and "The Cheat," an old DeMille silent which the Festival apparently screened at sound speed (30 per cent faster...
Thus, the pendulum has swung. Apart from some first-rate television journalism, the networks have been thoroughly overtaken by Hollywood, which, ironically, nearly went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
When completed, the NASA research laboratory will be one of the largest of kind in the country. NASA officials continually stressed the proximity of M.I.T. and Harvard as the chief reason locating the laboratory in Cambridge other than any other part of the metro-urban area...