Word: micheles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here's the action: maid Celestine (Moreau) arrives in Normandy from Paris, to work at a manor. Immediately begins a tableau of lives ruled and twisted by the sexual impulse. The lady of the manor is conspicuously frigid, her husband (brilliantly acted by Michel Piccoli) comically virile. "Watch out for that guv." Celestine is warned, "with him: one shot--POW!--a baby...
Renewed Welcome. For all his chauvinism, De Gaulle could hardly watch calmly while all those Yankee dollars went to other countries. Last January, when former Premier Michel Debre took over the Economics Ministry, the word was passed that France once again would welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble...
Modest though it was, the plan represented quite an unbending of the French economy by De Gaulle's austere standards for his Fifth Republic. The man he chose to carry out the change is a proven expert in bending over backward: Finance and Economics Minister Michel Debré, 54. Before he became De Gaulle's first Premier in 1959, Debré had been totally committed to keeping Algeria French; his main task turned out to be implementing De Gaulle's policy for Algerian independence. De Gaulle rewarded Debré in the arbitrary manner of princes, dumping...
...technique of interviews rather than dialogue. Jacques Demy, on the other hand, painted his settings every conceivable color in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to create a fairy-tale world. In contrast to Marker's candid sound-tracks, every word in Demy's film was sung to the tunes of Michel Legrand...
Expansive French. Even the French, whose intransigence has been a leading obstacle to monetary reform, seem less likely to give trouble this year. With the country expected to pursue a more expansionist domestic economic policy now that doctrinaire former Premier Michel Debré has replaced Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as Charles de Gaulle's Economics and Finance Minister, the French will presumably run a smaller trade surplus. If so, France will have fewer dollars to trade for U.S. gold-and should be more inclined to reach an accommodation with the rest of the West...