Word: michel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doesn't fit into the "classic" category. Screenwriter Francois Truffaut pioneered French new Wave film, and "Breathless" exemplifies the genre. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo fleshes out the New Wave hero flawlessly by shattering the image of the typical leading man. One scene shows Belmondo's character, the fugitive Michel Poiccard, staring at a poster of Humphrey Bogart for minutes on end. But Poiccard's unglamorous criminal record's appetite for sex and apathy for everything else render him the opposite of the tough-but-noble Bogart-esque hero...
State Sen. Michel J. Barrett '70, former state senator George Bachrach and State Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 were winding down their taped debate Thursday when the exchanges got nasty...
...will only fuel interest in the film. In Vienna, 10,000 children quickly volunteered to see the 3-hour 15-minute movie. Yes, on a school day; but playing hooky will educate kids in ! the lesson of man's inhumanity to man -- and of one man's humanity. To Michel Friedman, a child of Schindlerjuden and a leader in Frankfurt's Jewish community, Schindler's importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being: "a Mensch," says Friedman, using a good German and Yiddish word. "He is proof that if you wanted to help...
Throughout the album, McLachlan relies on the instrumentals of Pierre Marchand as the other main component evident on "Ice," where Marchand's bass and the saxophone of Michel Dubeau play mirror to McLachlan's voice. Marchand's support is also key on "Elsewhere," a beautiful declaration of the power of love, with the line "I believe this is heaven to no one else but me" multi-tracked over McLachlan's own vocal harmonies, guitars and piano. It is Marchand who adds the synthesizer and drum machines that round out McLachlan's sound, giving her the freedom to engage...
...West that Russian reform is moving in the wrong direction, the head of the International Monetary Fund announced that his agency would not back away from the stiff conditions it has sought for the release of more aid to Russia. As an IMF team arrived in Moscow, Michel Camdessus warned that the economic changes necessary to unlock $1.5 billion in aid "may not be easy...